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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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What you believe you experience.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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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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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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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