The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIFrom innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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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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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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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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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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