We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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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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To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
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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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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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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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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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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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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
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Be a light unto oneself,
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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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 fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
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