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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIHere is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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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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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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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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