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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIt’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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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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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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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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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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