To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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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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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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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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 fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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