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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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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Change Existence Feeling Life Transformation
What you believe you experience.
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Believe Experience
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Deep Ourselves Philosophy World
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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Death Destroy Learning Life School Spiritual Yourself
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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Art Thinking Word
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Life Love One Liner Truth
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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Life Love Politics Religious World
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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Hands Learning Life Yourself
Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Existence Hope
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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Change Human Importance Yourself
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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Mirror Relationship Yourself
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Body Meditation Mindset Responsible
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Life Love Nature Relationship Religion Truth
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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Divine Live World
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Character Clever Thinking
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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Effort Expectation Freedom Mind Philosophy Possible See True Wisdom

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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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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