Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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What you believe you experience.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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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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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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