Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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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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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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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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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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