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’.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf 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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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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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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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