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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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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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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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