Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWe all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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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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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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