There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIRelationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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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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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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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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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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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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