The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIOne is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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 moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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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 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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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