To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIKnowledge 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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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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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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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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