If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIntuition is the only true guide in life.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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 word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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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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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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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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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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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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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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What you believe you experience.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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