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Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
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To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.
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If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
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If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating processthen death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
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We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.
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Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
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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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There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.
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When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
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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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One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.
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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
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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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I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases to exist. It is then a question of a different attitude.
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To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.
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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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