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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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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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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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 primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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