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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
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J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti
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It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.
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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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You must look most intimately and discover for yourself then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.
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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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Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.
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After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.
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What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.
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Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
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We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.
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Be a light unto oneself
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Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
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It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.
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A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.
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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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The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.
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If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.
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Those who play a safe game die very safely.
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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
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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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The idea, the pattern, is self-projected it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
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