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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITransformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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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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What you believe you experience.
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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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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 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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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