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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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Growth Happiness Life Philosophy Satisfaction
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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Divine Live World
Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Existence Hope
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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Beginning Desire Discovery Mindset Seek
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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Direction Force Politics Religion Suffering
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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Education Motivational Time Yourself
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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Change Human Importance Yourself
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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Mirror Relationship Yourself
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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Death Destroy Learning Life School Spiritual Yourself
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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Afraid End Oneself Spiritual
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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Effort Expectation Freedom Mind Philosophy Possible See True Wisdom
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Ourselves Promise Reality
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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Existence Life Parents Philosophy Reality Teacher
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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Atheist Death Fear
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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Hands Learning Life Yourself
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Deep Freedom Past

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