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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you 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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[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.
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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
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Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
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A mind that practices love cannot love.
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It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.
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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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