Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Life Quotes, Country Quotes

It is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your husband, your neighbor, your child, your country, your leaders, your politicians, your gods-you have nothing but images. The images create the space between you and what you observe and in that space there is conflict, so what we are going to find out now together is whether it is possible to be free of the space we create, not only outside ourselves but in ourselves, the space which divides people in all their relationships.

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As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

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Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

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If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

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There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

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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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After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

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

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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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I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

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You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

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Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

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I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

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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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Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

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There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

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

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