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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIA lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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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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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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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 meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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 mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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 word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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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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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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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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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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