Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIEnlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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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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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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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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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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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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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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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
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