Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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What you believe you experience.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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 ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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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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