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’.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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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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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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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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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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