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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIBe a light unto oneself,
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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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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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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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What you believe you experience.
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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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