Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIf your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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What you believe you experience.
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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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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
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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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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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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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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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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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.
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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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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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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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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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What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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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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Intuition is the only true guide in life.
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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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