Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
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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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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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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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