The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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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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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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