What you believe you experience.
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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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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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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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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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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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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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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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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