Jiddu Krishnamurti on effort
Jiddu Krishnamurti72 quotes“Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
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Jiddu KrishnamurtiJiddu Krishnamurti 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.
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Jiddu KrishnamurtiJiddu Krishnamurti 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.
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