To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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