It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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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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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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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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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 nonacceptance of what is.
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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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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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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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