"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."
The Key is in Your Hand
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Krishnamurti
Description
"The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain."
Understand What You Are
"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."
Understanding Fear
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
We Have Ceased to Question
"By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to...
Understanding the Problem
"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem."
Violence
"Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country....
This Extraordinary Thing Called Love
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
Begin Where You Are
"Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought."
No Longer Free
"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."