Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThere is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Be a light unto oneself,
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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