Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Son Quotes, Goal Quotes

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

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True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.

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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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Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?

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To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

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What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.

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You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

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Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

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If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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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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National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

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What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.

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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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Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

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If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

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We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

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Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

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We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

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Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

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We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

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