Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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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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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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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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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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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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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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To 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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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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