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 KRISHNAMURTIThe mind has to be empty to see clearly.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
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Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
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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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What you believe you experience.
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If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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