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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: May 12
Died: 1986
Died: February 17
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Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.
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Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
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We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.
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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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Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed you are merely dominated, influenced.
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Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
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All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You 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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So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
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Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.
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If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.
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To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.
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Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
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Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.
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When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
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Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
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Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind
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You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.
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Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?
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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
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To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.
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