The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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