Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTINo 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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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.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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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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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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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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