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 KRISHNAMURTIFear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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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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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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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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What you believe you experience.
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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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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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