We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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What you believe you experience.
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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.
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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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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 begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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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 ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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