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.
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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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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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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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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.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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