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 KRISHNAMURTIMerely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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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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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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