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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.
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Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.
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Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.
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A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
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The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.
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If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.
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Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.
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When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
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When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.
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If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.
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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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You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.
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When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
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There is no tranquility in ideas.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.
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