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.
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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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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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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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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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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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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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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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What you believe you experience.
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