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The thought is not the thing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
Philosopher
Writer
J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti
J Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurthy
Alsion
Thought
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Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
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There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.
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Look at that battle you are involved in you are caught in it: you are it.
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Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
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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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Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
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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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The guru cannot awaken you all that he can do is to point out what is.
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To keep always in the same place means to stagnate.
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The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.
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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
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