Be a light unto oneself,
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIYou 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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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand 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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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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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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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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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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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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