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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
Krishnamurti
J Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurthy
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You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.
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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
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Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
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I don't mind what happens.
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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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True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.
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In the denial of that disorder there is order.
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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
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Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.
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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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Yoga exercises are excellent the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.
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Look at that battle you are involved in you are caught in it: you are it.
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If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.
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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .
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But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.
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Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
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Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
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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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