Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhen 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.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
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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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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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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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