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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThroughout 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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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 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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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 mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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