Most people like to live in illusions.
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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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 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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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