Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIYou can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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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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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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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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