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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhat you believe you experience.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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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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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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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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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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