We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIEnlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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