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.
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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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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Be a light unto oneself,
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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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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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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