The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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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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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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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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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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