If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe 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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
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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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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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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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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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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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