Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhat you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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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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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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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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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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