In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo 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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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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What you believe you experience.
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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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