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.
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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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What you believe you experience.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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 knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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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 function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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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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