Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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 moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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