To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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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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What you believe you experience.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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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.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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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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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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