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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIDiscipline 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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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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 word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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