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Can you look at a flower without thinking?

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
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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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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
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Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.
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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 Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.
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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
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Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.
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Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
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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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I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
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Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.
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Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.
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If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.
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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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We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
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Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.
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If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?
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Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.
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When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
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