If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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