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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIAll 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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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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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