The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIFear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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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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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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If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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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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What you believe you experience.
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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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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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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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