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’.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIEnlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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 crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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