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Is there a thinker apart from thought?

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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Thought
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To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
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The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
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Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.
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A mind that practices love cannot love.
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My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.
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Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
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The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
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