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Awareness Is Observation Without Choice, Condemnation, Or Justification. Awareness Is Silent Observation From Which There Arises Understanding Without The Experiencer And The Experienced. In This Awareness, Which Is Passive, The Problem Or The Cause Is Given An Opportunity To Unfold Itself And So Give Its Full Significance. In Awareness There Is No End In View To Be Gained, And There Is No Becoming, The 'me' And The 'mine' Not Being Given The Continuity.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Awareness Is Observation Without Choice, Condemnation, Or Justification. Awareness Is Silent Observation From Which There Arises Understanding Without The Experiencer And The Experienced. In This Awareness, Which Is Passive, The Problem Or The Cause Is Given An Opportunity To Unfold Itself And So Give Its Full Significance. In Awareness There Is No End In View To Be Gained, And There Is No Becoming, The 'me' And The 'mine' Not Being Given The Continuity.

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You Yourself Are The Teacher, And The Pupil, You're The Master, You're The Guru, You Are The Leader, You Are Everything! And, To Understand Is To Transform What Is.

Does Choice Exist When I See Something Very Clearly?

No Book Can Teach You About Yourself, No Psychologist, None Of The Professors Or Philosophers. What They Can Teach You Is What They Think You Are Or What They Think You Should Be.

It Is Intelligence That Brings Order, Not Discipline.

And The Point Is, Is It Possible For The Mind To Be Totally Free From Suffering And Yet Not Become Indifferent, Callous, Irresponsible, But To Have That Passion, The Intensity, The Energy That Freedom Brings, Freedom From Suffering.

The Fact Is There Is Nothing That You Can Trust; And That Is A Terrible Fact, Whether You Like It Or Not. Psychologically There Is Nothing In The World, That You Can Put Your Faith, Your Trust, Or Your Belief In. Neither Your Gods, Nor Your Science Can Save You, Can Bring You Psychological Certainty; And You Have To Accept That You Can Trust In Absolutely Nothing.

To Transform The World, We Must Begin With Ourselves; And What Is Important In Beginning With Ourselves Is The Intention. The Intention Must Be To Understand Ourselves And Not To Leave It To Others To Transform Themselves Or To Bring About A Modified Change Through Revolution, Either Of The Left Or Of The Right. It Is Important To Understand That This Is Our Responsibility, Yours And Mine.

A Consistent Thinker Is A Thoughtless Person, Because He Conforms To A Pattern; He Repeats Phrases And Thinks In A Groove.

Fear Begins And Ends With The Desire To Be Secure; Inward And Outward Security, With The Desire To Be Certain, To Have Permanency. The Continuity Of Permanence Is Sought In Every Direction, In Virtue, In Relationship, In Action, In Experience, In Knowledge, In Outward And Inward Things. To Find Security And Be Secure Is The Everlasting Cry. It Is This Insistent Demand That Breeds Fear.

And As We Are - The World Is. That Is, If We Are Greedy, Envious, Competitive, Our Society Will Be Competitive, Envious, Greedy, Which Brings Misery And War. The State Is What We Are.

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.

Transformation Can Only Take Place Immediately; The Revolution Is Now, Not Tomorrow.

Silence Is Difficult And Arduous; It Is Not To Be Played With. It Isn't Something That You Can Experience By Reading A Book, Or By Listening To A Talk, Or By Sitting Together, Or By Retiring Into A Wood Or A Monastery. I Am Afraid None Of These Things Will Bring About This Silence. This Silence Demands Intense Psychological Work. You Have To Be Burningly Aware - Aware Of Your Speech, Aware Of Your Snobbishness, Aware Of Your Fears, Your Anxieties, Your Sense Of Guilt. And When You Die To All That, Then Out Of That Dying Comes The Beauty Of Silence.

Not To Know Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

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?

And The Idea Of Ourselves Is Our Escape From The Fact What We Really Are.

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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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Have You Ever Sat Very Quietly With Closed Eyes And Watched The Movement Of Your Own Thinking? Have You Watched Your Mind Working?or Rather, Has Your Mind Watched Itself In Operation, Just To See What Your Thoughts Are, What Your Feelings Are, How You Look At The Trees, At The Flowers, At The Birds, At People, How You Respond To A Suggestion Or React To A New Idea? Have You Ever Done This?

You Cannot Ask Which System Is The Better Because You Cannot Standardize One System For The Whole Of The World. You Cannot Have One Stereotyped Code Of Morality For Every Country. One System May Work Very Well In One Country And Very Badly In Another. You Cannot Grow A Tropical Flower In A Cold Climate.

You Must Look Most Intimately And Discover For Yourself; Then It Is Your Own, Not Somebody Else’s, Not Something That You Have Been Told, Because There Is No Teacher And No Follower.

Identification Prevents And Perverts The Flow Of Thought-feeling.

I Should Say That All Compromise Is A "stepping Down" Of The Truth, Is Trying To Reduce Something Which Cannot Be Reduced, And That For Anyone Who Has Understood Life These Compromises Are Impossible.

I Think One Has To Understand, Not As A Theory, Not As A Speculative, Entertaining Concept, But Rather As An Actual Fact - That We Are The World And The World Is Us. The World Is Each One Of Us; To Feel That, To Be Really Committed To It And To Nothing Else, Brings About A Feeling Of Great Responsibility And An Action That Must Not Be Fragmentary, But Whole.

To Be Is To Be Related.

And The Fear Of Not Being Is Born In That Space. But In Meditation, When This Is Understood, The Mind Can Enter Into A Dimension Of Space Where Action Is Inaction. We Do Not Know What Love Is, For In The Space Made By Thought Around Itself As The Me, Love Is The Conflict Of The Me And The Not-me. This Conflict, This Torture, Is Not Love. Thought Is The Very Denial Of Love, And It Cannot Enter Into That Space Where The Me Is Not. In That Space Is The Benediction Which Man Seeks And Cannot Find. He Seeks It Within The Frontiers Of Thought, And Thought Destroys The Ecstasy Of This Benediction.

Fear Is Nonacceptance Of What Is.

Thought Is So Cunning, So Clever, That It Distorts Everything For Its Own Convenience.

We Shall Quench Our Thirst, For We Shall Drink Deep At The Bubbling Fountain Of Wisdom.

If People Are Foolish, They Are Bound To Mix The Personality And The Truth, And To Build A Temple Around The Personality And Form A Religion.

Intelligence Comes Into Being When The Mind, The Heart And The Body Are Really Harmonious.

...choice In Every Form Is Conflict. Contradiction Is Inevitable In Choice; This Contradiction, Inner And Outer Breeds Confusion And Misery.

As Long As The Mind Clings To Belief, It Is Held In A Prison.

The Becoming Still Can Never Be The Being Still; Only With The Death Of Becoming Is There Being.

You Must Understand The Whole Of Life, Not Just One Little Part Of It.

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.

When You Once See Something As False Which You Have Accepted As True, As Natural, As Human, Then You Can Never Go Back To It.

Disillusionment

Only The Mind That Has Emptied Itself Of The Known Is Creative. That Is Creation. What It Creates Has Nothing To Do With It. Freedom From The Known Is The State Of A Mind That Is In Creation.

This Is No Magnificent Deed, Because I Do Not Want Followers, And I Mean This. The Moment You Follow Someone You Cease To Follow Truth. I Am Not Concerned Whether You Pay Attention To What I Say Or Not. I Want To Do A Certain Thing In The World And I Am Going To Do It With Unwavering Concentration. 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.

All Outward Forms Of Change Brought About By Wars, Revolutions, Reformations, Laws And Ideologies Have Failed Completely To Change The Basic Nature Of Man And Therefore Of Society.

Only The Free Mind Knows What Love Is.

So Through Identification You Have Pleasure And Pain.

Religion Becomes A Matter Of Belief, And Belief Acts As A Limitation On The Mind; And The Mind Then Is Never Free.

Discipline Does Not Mean Suppression And Control, Nor Is It Adjustment To A Pattern Or Ideology. It Means A Mind That Sees 'what Is' And Learns From 'what Was'.

Fear Is Not Of The Unknown, But Of Loss Of The Known.

A Cup Is Useful Only When It Is Empty; And A Mind That Is Filled With Beliefs, With Dogmas, With Assertions, With Quotations Is Really An Uncreative Mind.

But If You Have No Relationship With The Living Things On This Earth, You May Lose Whatever Relationship You Have With Humanity.

It Is Only In A Very Quiet Mind That Great Things Are Born; And A Quiet Mind Does Not Come About Through Effort, Through Control, Through Discipline.

If You Seem Something That Is True And Do Not Act Then You Are Wasting Your Life. And Life Is Too Precious. It Is All That We Have.

When I Understand Myself, I Understand You, And Out Of That Understanding Comes Love. Love Is The Missing Factor; There Is A Lack Of Affection, Of Warmth In Relationship; And Because We Lack That Love, That Tenderness, That Generosity, That Mercy In Relationship, We Escape Into Mass Action Which Produces Further Confusion, Further Misery. We Fill Our Hearts With Blueprints For World Reform And Do Not Look To That One Resolving Factor Which Is Love.

Silence Is Difficult And Arduous, It Is Not To Be Played With.

Insight Is Not A Matter Of Memory, Of Knowledge And Time, Which Are All Thought.

Sentimentality And Emotionalism Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Love.

Did You Ever Sit Quietly With Your Back Straight, Not Moving, Just Only Cherishing The Beauty Of Silence?

But Our Minds Are Bound To The Yardstick Of Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, And With That Yardstick We Try To Inquire Into The Unknown, To Measure That Which Is Not Measurable.

Do It Or Don't Do It But Get On With It.

In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man, And In It Is All The Becoming, The Battle Of Life, The Agony And Fear. Meditation Is The Ending Of This Space, The Ending Of The Me.

Living In The Present Is The Instant Perception Of Beauty And The Great Delight In It Without Seeking Pleasure From It.

Perception Of Beauty

Some Go To Sleep In An Organization And Never Wake Up, And Those Who Do Wake Up Put Them Selves To Sleep Again By Joining Another. This Acquisitive Movement Is Called Expansion Of Thought, Progress.

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