Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIOnly when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It’s only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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