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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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Ability Inspirational Intelligence Judgement
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Growth Happiness Life Philosophy Satisfaction
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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Direction Force Politics Religion Suffering
Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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Divine Live World
What you believe you experience.
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Believe Experience
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Life Love Nature Relationship Religion Truth
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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Life Need Simplicity
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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Important Lying Problem Understand
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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Change Existence Feeling Life Transformation
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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Addiction Freedom Knowledge Understand Wisdom
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.
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Desire Love Mean Secure Vulnerable
Be a light unto oneself,
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Light One Liner Oneself Self Love
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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Be Yourself Book Philosophy Thinking
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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Authority Book Journey Spiritual
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Ourselves Promise Reality
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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Atheist Death Fear

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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