Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIEnlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIRelationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIA lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIReligion, 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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe 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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWithout freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIHere is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhat you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIt is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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