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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhen one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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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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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Religion, 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.
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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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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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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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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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