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Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
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Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.
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When the wind blows across the various continents, it does not bring with it the nationalities of the countries through which it passes. So likewise with Life.
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Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.
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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
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Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.
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Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
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It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.
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Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
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It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.
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Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
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A mind that is afraid withers away it cannot function properly.
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When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
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It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse.
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Each breath is transforming me into thine image.
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And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.
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I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem. But, the moment you cease to struggle and let the problem tell you the whole story, give all its significance - then there is understanding, which means, obviously, that to understand, the mind must be quiet.
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.
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