Most people like to live in illusions.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIPut away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what 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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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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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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 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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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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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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