There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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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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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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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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