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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIContentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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