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.
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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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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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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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Without 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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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