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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
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Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
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If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.
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Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.
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My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
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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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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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Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
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Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory.
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In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.
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If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.
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Transformation can only take place immediately the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
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Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.
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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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Understanding does not come through analysisunderstanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.
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We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.
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Truth is a pathless land.
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I don't mind what happens.
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Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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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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