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 KRISHNAMURTIFear 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 moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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