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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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 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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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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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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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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