Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIChange 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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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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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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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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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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