Jiddu Krishnamurti Short Quotes

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There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

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You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

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Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?

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Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

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The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

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Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

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

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My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

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Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

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A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

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It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

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Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

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Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

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Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

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Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

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Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

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

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Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

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To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

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

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The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

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Religion is the frozen thought of men out of which they build temples.

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Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

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The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

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

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Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

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