The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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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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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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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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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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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 moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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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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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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