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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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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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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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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in 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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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