The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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What you believe you experience.
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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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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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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The 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.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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