Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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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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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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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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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
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