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While One Is Young Is The Time To Investigate, To Experiment With Everything. The School Should Help Its Young People To Discover Their Vocations And Responsibilities, And Not Merely Cram Their Minds With Facts And Technical Knowledge; It Should Be The Soil In Which They Can Grow Without Fear, Happily And Integrally.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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While One Is Young

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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While One Is Young Is The Time To Investigate, To Experiment With Everything. The School Should Help Its Young People To Discover Their Vocations And Responsibilities, And Not Merely Cram Their Minds With Facts And Technical Knowledge; It Should Be The Soil In Which They Can Grow Without Fear, Happily And Integrally.

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The Mind Gives Meaning To Anything But The Meaning It Gives Is Meaningless.

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There Is No Partial Sensitivity; Either It Is The State Of One's Whole Being, Total Consciousness Or It Is Not There At All

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Though We Are All Human Beings, We Have Built Walls Between Ourselves And Our Neighbors Through Nationalism, Through Race, Caste, And Class - Which Again Breeds Isolation, Loneliness.

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There Is Always Great Beauty, Not Of Images, Feeling Or Thought. Beauty Is Neither Thought Nor Feeling; It Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Emotion Or Sentiment. There Is Fear. Fear Is Never An Actuality; It Is Either Before Or After The Active Present. When There Is Fear In The Active Present, Is It Fear? It Is There And There Is No Escape From It, No Evasion Possible. There, At That Actual Moment, There Is Total Attention At The Moment Of Danger, Physical Or Psychological.

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Knowledge Is An Addiction, As Drink; Knowledge Does Not Bring Understanding. Knowledge Can Be Taught, But Not Wisdom; There Must Be Freedom From Knowledge For The Coming Of Wisdom.

Understanding Knowledge

But Inwardly We Are As Corrupt As The Person Who Sits In An Office And Plans War-because, We Want To Be Somebody In The Family, In A Group, In Society, In The Nation.

Until A Radical Change Takes Place And We Wipe Out All Nationalities, All Ideologies, All Religious Divisions, And Establish A Global Relationship - Psychologically First, Inwardly Before Organizing The Outer - We Shall Go On With Wars.

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A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

Is It Possible To Live In This World Without The Operation Of Will?

To Come Upon Love Without Seeking It Is The Only Way To Find It.

Most People Like To Live In Illusions.

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.

If You Die To Everything You Know,including Your Family,yourmemory,everything You Have Felt,then Death Is A Purification,a Rejuvenating Process;then Death Brings Innocence And It Is Only The Innocent Who Are Passionate, Not The People Who Believe Or Who Want To Find Out What Happens After Death.

Thought Is Matter As Much As The Floor, The Wall, The Telephone, Are Matter.

How Do You Listen? Do You Listen With Your Projections, Through Your Projection, Through Your Ambitions, Desire, Fears, Anxieties, Through Hearing Only What You Want To Hear, Only What Will Be Satisfactory, What Will Gratify, What Will Give Comfort, What Will For The Moment Alleviate Your Suffering? If You Listen Through The Screen Of Your Desires, Then You Obviously Listen To Your Own Voice.

Student: Sir, You Said You Must Change The World. How Can You Change It, Sir? Krishnamurti: What Is The World? The World Is Where You Live - Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours. And Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours Can Be Extended And That Is The World. Now, You Are The Centre Of That World. That Is The World You Live In. Now How Will You Change The World? By Changing Yourself?

Meditation Is Like The Breeze That Comes In When You Leave The Window Open; But If You Deliberately Keep It Open, Deliberately Invite It To Come, It Will Never Appear.

You Only Learn When You Give Your Whole Being To Something. When You Give Your Whole Being To Mathematics,you Learn; But When You Are In A State Of Contradiction, When You Do Not Want To Learn But Are Forced To Learn, Then It Becomes Merely A Process Of Accumulation. To Learn Is Like Reading A Novel With Innumerable Characters; It Requires Your Full Attention, Not Contradictory Attention.

Love Is The Most Practical Thing In The World. To Love, To Be Kind, Not To Be Greedy, Not To Be Ambitious, Not To Be Influenced By People But To Think For Yourself-these Are All Very Practical Things, And They Will Bring About A Practical, Happy Society.

So You Have To Be Your Own Teacher And Your Own Disciple, And There Is No Teacher Outside, No Saviour, No Master; You Yourself Have To Change, And Therefore You Have To Learn To Observe, To Know Yourself. This Learning About Yourself Is A Fascinating And Joyous Business.

If I Do Not Know Reality, The Unknown, How Can I Search For It? Surely It Must Come But I Cannot Go After It. If I Go After It I Am Going After Something Which Is The Known, Projected By Me; By My Own Mind.

Compassion Being Action Without Motive, Without Self-interest, Without Any Sense Of Fear, Without Any Sense Of Pleasure.

When You Do Not Name A Group Of People, You Are Compelled To Look At Each Individual Face And Not Treat Them All As The Mass.

To Seek Fulfillment Is To Invite Frustration.

Can The Mind Become Completely Still Without Coercion, Without Compulsion, Without Discipline?

Does Choice Exist When I See Something Very Clearly?

One Must Know Oneself As One Is, Not As One Wishes To Be, Which Is Merely An Ideal And Therefore Fictitious, Unreal; It Is Only That Which Is That Can Be Transformed, Not That Which You Wish To Be.

The Function Of Education Is To Help You From Childhood Not To Imitate Anybody, But Be Yourself All The Time.

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.

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.

Without Love The Acquisition Of Knowledge Only Increases Confusion And Leads To Self-destruction.

Do You Know Your Particular Fears? And What Do You Usually Do With Them? You Run Away From Them, Don't You, Or Invent Ideas And Images To Cover Them? But To Run Away From Fear Is Only To Increase It.

Your Belief In God Is Merely An Escape From Your Monotonous, Stupid And Cruel Life.

All Tradition Is Merely The Past.

Relationship Between Human Beings Is Based On The Image-forming, Defensive Mechanism. In Our Relationships Each Of Us Builds An Image About The Other, And These Two Images Have Relationship, Not The Human Beings Themselves.

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The Fundamental Factor Of Self-deception Is This Constant Desire To Be Something In This World And In The World Hereafter.

Do You Know That Even When You Look At A Tree And Say, `that Is An Oak Tree', Or `that Is A Banyan Tree', The Naming Of The Tree, Which Is Botanical Knowledge, Has So Conditioned Your Mind That The Word Comes Between You And Actually Seeing The Tree? To Come In Contact With The Tree You Have To Put Your Hand On It And The Word Will Not Help You To Touch It.

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