The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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