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’.
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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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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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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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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 moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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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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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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