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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIPut away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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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.
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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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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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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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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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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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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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