Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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