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.
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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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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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.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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 constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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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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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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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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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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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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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