Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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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Fear 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 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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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