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Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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J. Krishnamurti
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J Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurthy
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Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.
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It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.
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Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
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Yoga exercises are excellent the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.
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Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
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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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To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
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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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