Be a light unto oneself,
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 fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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