Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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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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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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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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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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