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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIYou can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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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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 moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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 truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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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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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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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