It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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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 primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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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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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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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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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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