Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIEnlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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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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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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