Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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 function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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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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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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