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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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Growth Happiness Life Philosophy Satisfaction
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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Hope People
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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Belief Clever Energy Fear Men Theory
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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Image Live Sanity Self Esteem World
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Ourselves Promise Reality
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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Desire Love Mean Secure Vulnerable
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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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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Addiction Freedom Knowledge Understand Wisdom
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Effort One Liner Religion Truth
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy World
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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Direction Force Politics Religion Suffering
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Deep Freedom Past
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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