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 KRISHNAMURTIWithout freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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 fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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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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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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