Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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 primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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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 more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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