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There is no tranquility in ideas.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
Philosopher
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J. Krishnamurti
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J Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurthy
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Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
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I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.
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You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.
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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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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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The only freedom is the freedom from the known.
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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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If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.
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Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.
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It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.
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Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
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Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.
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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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Do it or don't do it but get on with it.
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Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.
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Is there a thinker apart from thought?
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
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You want to be loved because you do not love but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
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