When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIFear is nonacceptance of what is.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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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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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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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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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
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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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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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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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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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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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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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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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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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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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If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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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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Most people like to live in illusions.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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