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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhere 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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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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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 ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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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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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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 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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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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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