One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo 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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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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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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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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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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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