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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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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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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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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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