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.
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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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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