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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIUsing 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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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 you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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