Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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 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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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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