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Only 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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Growth Happiness Life Philosophy Satisfaction
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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Death Destroy Learning Life School Spiritual Yourself
Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Death Games One Liner Play Safety
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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Ability Inspirational Intelligence Judgement
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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Direction Force Politics Religion Suffering
Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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Peace Yourself
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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Desire Love Mean Secure Vulnerable
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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Life Love Politics Religious World
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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Education Motivational Time Yourself
Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Freedom Inspirational Mind One Liner Secret
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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Character Clever Thinking
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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Deception Desire Fundamental
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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Atheist Death Fear
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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Children Education Teaching
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Effort One Liner Religion Truth
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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Beginning Desire Discovery Mindset Seek
The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Ability Hurt
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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Image Live Sanity Self Esteem World
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Enlightenment Freedom Spiritual
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.
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Generosity Life Love
Look what is happening in the world – we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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Divine Live World
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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Belief Ideas Knowledge Wisdom
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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Ourselves Promise Reality
Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Guide Intuition Life One Liner
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
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Addiction Freedom Knowledge Understand Wisdom
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Deep Fear Thinking
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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Change Freedom Heart Philosophy World

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