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And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.
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We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.
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Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.
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Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?
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Is not virtue a negation of becoming?
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Yoga exercises are excellent the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.
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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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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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All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.
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The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
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We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.
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[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.
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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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Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.
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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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Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
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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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Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.
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In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.
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