When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIts beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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It 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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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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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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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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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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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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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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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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 word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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