Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWithout knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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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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Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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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.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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