Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo 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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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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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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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