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Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The mind finds security and strength in religious and political patterns, and this is what gives stamina to the organizations.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
To be free from violence means everything to me. It is more important to me than sex, food, position, for this thing is corrupting me.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Can you look at a flower without thinking?
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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.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
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Achieve order within yourself ... an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment ... in the daily life of the home and the office.
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Most people like to live in illusions.
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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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The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
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Silence is the break between two thoughts/noises.
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If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
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A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.
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Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
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virtue can flower only when there is freedom.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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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.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.
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Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
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Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.
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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.
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Truth is more in the process than in the result.
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You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you
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Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The strange thing was that you felt such a great sense of affection, not for anything or for anyone, but the fullness of what may be called love.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A mind that practices love cannot love.
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You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.
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Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.
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Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
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Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
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Peace can come only when there is love.
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Is there a thinker apart from thought?
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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As we are - the world is.
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Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
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Can thought be silent?
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Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
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Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.
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Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love. To
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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all ...
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I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence
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Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
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If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
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To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.
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You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.
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He who has forgotten his childhood and lost sympathy with the children is not a man who can teach them or help them.
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A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
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Thought is really the most mischievous thing in life, the greatest criminal.
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Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
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You must be a light unto yourself.
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After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?
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Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.
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Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
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The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
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Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom is now or never.
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To be is to be related.
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No one can describe reality. You must experience it, see it, feel the whole atmosphere of it — Jiddu Krishnamurti
To understand the whole operation of one's own mind requires a great deal of insight, a great deal of inquiry without condemnation.
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Be simple.. .and don't try to become something or to capture some experience.
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The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
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Through a narrow window we can see only part of the sky, and not the whole vastness, the magnificence of it.
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Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.
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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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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
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Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?
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The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
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Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
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Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.
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Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
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Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
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The difference between me and you is ... that I don't mind what happens.
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Thought with its emotional and sensational content, is not love. Thought
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Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
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The only freedom is the freedom from the known.
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Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.
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Humility is unaware of the division of the superior and the inferior, of the Master and the pupil. As
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.
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Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
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If I condemn something, I do not understand it.
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Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
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The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.
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Self expansion in any form, whether through wealth or through virtue, is a process of conflict, causing antagonism and confusion. A
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Meditation is the action of silence.
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