No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIt 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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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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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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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