The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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.
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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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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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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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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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The 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.
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Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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