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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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.
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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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Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.
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I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.
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And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.
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We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.
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My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.
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And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.
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People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house.
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In the denial of that disorder there is order.
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When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
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A mind that practices love cannot love.
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You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?
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What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.
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All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.
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All tradition is merely the past.
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The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
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