To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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 constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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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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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 ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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