Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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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.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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“To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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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."

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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"Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself."

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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"It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love."

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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"It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

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"Negation can only take place when the mind sees the false. The very perception of the false is the negation of the false."

― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)