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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIContentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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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 you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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