All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIContentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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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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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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