Cogs Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare,…

— Geneen Roth

“We see throughout the world extremes of poverty and riches, abundance and at the same time starvation; we have class distinction and racial hatred,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all…

— Philip Zimbardo

“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to feel worse…

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are…

— Epictetus

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain…

— Gary Zukav

When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and…

— Tara Brach

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort…

— Joan Didion

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At one time…

— Swami Vivekananda