The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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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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 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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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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