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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
Philosopher
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J. Krishnamurti
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Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
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You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.
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Happiness is strange it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
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Doesn't becoming imply time?
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Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.
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When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
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Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.
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There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.
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To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.
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It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.
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Change in society is of secondary importance that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
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As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
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Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.
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If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.
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Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
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What is correct action in a deteriorating world?
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