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.
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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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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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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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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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