To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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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’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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