Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIEnlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThose who play a safe game die very safely.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe 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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIUsing 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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIt 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 KRISHNAMURTIAll ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIReligion, 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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThere is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIChange in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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