If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhat you believe you experience.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Be a light unto oneself,
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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