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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIRelationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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