From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWithout freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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 crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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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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It 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.
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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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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.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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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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