It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMerely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
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