From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIDo not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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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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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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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