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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhat you believe you experience.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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