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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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You are the world and the world is you.
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What is correct action in a deteriorating world?
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We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
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Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
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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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I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things.
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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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Of course it is better to emphasize the unity of human beings rather than to emphasize the diversity of forms, that is to say, the man and the woman separately. If you have separate organizations for men and women you will tend to set them apart from each other, which is what often happens at present and is absurd!
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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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Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
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Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
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After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
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Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
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A cup is useful only when it is empty and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.
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The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
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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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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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Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
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The real is near, you do not have to seek it and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.
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If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.
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