If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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