If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIBe a light unto oneself,
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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Discipline 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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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