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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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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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.
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When you are free, you have no choice.
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Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.
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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
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Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?
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Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.
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We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.
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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.
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If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
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Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.
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A mind that is afraid withers away it cannot function properly.
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Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.
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Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
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What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.
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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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In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
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What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.
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Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.
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