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Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
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Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.
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Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.
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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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All tradition is merely the past.
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Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
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Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.
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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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You have been overcome and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.
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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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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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Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.
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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.
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The description is not the described.
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Learning is the very essence of humility . . .
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You are the world and the world is you.
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A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.
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Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
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