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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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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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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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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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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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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
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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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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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