Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIContentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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.
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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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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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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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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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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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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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