The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThose who play a safe game die very safely.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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What you believe you experience.
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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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