The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIYou can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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 function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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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 mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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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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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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