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Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

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We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.

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Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

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The observer is the observed.

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As the river enters the sea and loses itself in the sea, so Krishnamurti has entered into that Life which is represented by some as The Christ, by others as The Buddha, by others still, as the Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti as an entity fully developed has entered into the Sea of Life and is the Teacher, because the moment you enter into that Life -which is the fulfilment of all Teachers, which is life of all the Teachers - the individual as such ceases.

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The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

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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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It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

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Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

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Despair exists only when there is hope.

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We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

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Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

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Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

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Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

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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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Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

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It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

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Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

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You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy.

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

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