The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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