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All Authority Of Any Kind, Especially In The Field Of Thought And Understanding, Is The Most Destructive, Evil Thing. Leaders Destroy The Followers And Followers Destroy The Leaders. You Have To Be Your Own Teacher And Your Own Disciple. You Have To Question Everything That Man Has Accepted As Valuable, As Necessary.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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All Authority Of Any

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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All Authority Of Any Kind, Especially In The Field Of Thought And Understanding, Is The Most Destructive, Evil Thing. Leaders Destroy The Followers And Followers Destroy The Leaders. You 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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Relationship Is Action, Is It Not? Action Has Meaning Only In Relationship; Without Understanding Relationship, Action On Any Level Will Only Breed Conflict. The Understanding Of Relationship Is Infinitely More Important Than The Search For Any Plan Of Action. The Ideology, The Pattern For Action, Prevents Action. Action Based On Ideology Hinders The Understanding Of Relationship Between Man And Man.

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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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As Long As You Ask Questions You Are Breaking Through, But The Moment You Begin To Accept, You Are Psychologically Dead. So Right Through Life Don't Accept A Thing, But Inquire, Investigate. Then You Will Find That Your Mind Is Something Really Extraordinary, It Has No End, And To Such A Mind There Is No Death.

From Innumerable Complexities We Must Grow To Simplicity; We Must Become Simple In Our Inward Life And In Our Outward Needs.

We Should Awaken Feelings Of Respect For Each Other. In Other Words, Awaken The Desire To Kill Selfishness.

Religion, Politics, Society Are Exploiting You, And You Are Being Conditioned By Them; You Are Being Forced In A Particular Direction. You Are Not Human Beings; You Are Mere Cogs In A Machine.

Freedom Is Not A Reaction; Freedom Is Not A Choice. . Freedom Is Found In The Choiceless Awareness Of Our Daily Existence And Activity.

You Must Understand The Whole Of Life, Not Just One Little Part Of It. That Is Why You Must Read, That Is Why You Must Look At The Skies, That Is Why You Must Sing And Dance, And Write Poems And Suffer And Understand, For All That Is Life.

Intuition Is The Only True Guide In Life.

To Understand Oneself Requires Patience, Tolerant Awareness; The Self Is A Book Of Many Volumes Which You Cannot Read In A Day, But When Once You Begin To Read, You Must Read Every Word, Every Sentence, Every Paragraph For In Them Are The Intimations Of The Whole. The Beginning Of It Is The Ending Of It. If You Know How To Read, Supreme Wisdom Is To Be Found.

Belief Conditions Experience, And Experience Then Strengthens Belief.

Is Insight Dependent On A Material Process? Has Insight A Cause?

A Lily Or A Rose Never Pretends, And Its Beauty Is That It Is What It Is.

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You Cannot Explain To Someone Who Comes With No Idea Of What You Are Talking About Without Being Misunderstood.

You Are The World And The World Is You.

Fear Is The Destructive Energy In Man. It Withers The Mind, It Distorts Thought, It Leads To All Kinds Of Extraordinarily Clever And Subtle Theories, Absurd Superstitions, Dogmas, And Beliefs.

Those Who Play A Safe Game Die Very Safely.

To Be Absolutely Nothing Is To Be Beyond Measure.

Absolutely Nothing

Find Out For Yourself What Are The Possesions And Ideals That You Do Not Desire. By Knowing What You Do Not Want, By Elimination, You Will Unburden The Mind, And Only Then Will It Understand The Essential Which Is Ever There.

Without Knowing Yourself, There Is No Peace.

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.

Of Course It Is Better To Emphasize The Unity Of Human Beings Rather Than To Emphasize The Diversity Of Forms, That Is To Say, The Man And The Woman Separately. If You Have Separate Organizations For Men And Women You Will Tend To Set Them Apart From Each Other, Which Is What Often Happens At Present And Is Absurd!

Look At That Battle You Are Involved In; You Are Caught In It: You Are It.

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Sir, When Two People Have The Extraordinary Quality Of This State, Words Are Not Necessary. Where That Quality Of Love Exists, Words Become Unnecessary. There Is Instant Communication.

The Real Student Is Studying, Learning, Inquiring, Exploring, Not Just Until He Is Twenty Or Twenty-five, But Throughout Life.

If There Is No Meditation, Then You Are Like A Blind Man In A World Of Great Beauty, Light And Colour.

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."

Freedom Is Always At The Beginning And Not At The End.

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.

The Earth Doesn't Belong To Anyone. It Is The Land Upon Which All Of Us Are To Live For Many Years, Ploughing, Reaping And Destroying. You Are Always A Guest On This Earth And Have The Austerity Of A Guest. Austerity Is Far Deeper Than Owning Only A Few Things. The Very Word Austerity Has Been Spoilt By The Monks, By The Sannyasis, By The Hermits. Sitting On That High Hill Alone In The Solitude Of Many Things, Many Rocks And Little Animals And Ants, That Word Has No Meaning.

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.

We Are Asking A Really Fundamental Question Whether Thought Can Ever Be Creative. If Thought Is Not The Ground Of Creation Then What Is Creation? Is Love The Only Factor That Is Creative?

Don't We Introduce Time As A Means Of Becoming More Evolved? The Brain Has Evolved But Is There Evolution Inwardly? Can The Brain Dominated By Time Not Be Subservient To It?

If You Have This Extraordinary Thing Going In Your Life, Then It Is Everything; Then You Become The Teacher, The Disciple, The Neighbour, The Beauty Of The Cloud - You Are All That, And That Is Love.

Adhere To The Truth Rather Than To The Personality, And Take To Heart The Truth Rather Than The Authority Of Another.

When You Are Free, You Have No Choice.

While Expressing Your Desires, You Would Need To Exercise Control In Order To Prevent Them From Doing Harm To You Or To Others.

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?

The Ending Of Sorrow Is The Beginning Of Wisdom. Knowledge Is Always Within The Shadow Of Ignorance. Meditation Is Freedom From Thought And A Movement In The Ecstasy Of Truth. Meditation Is Explosion Of Intelligence.

Mere Isolation In An Enclosing Idea Is Not A Release From Conflict.

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.

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

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

When You Identify Yourself With A Group Of People Or A Set Of Ideas, Aren't You Separating Yourself?

Only In Relationship Can You Know Yourself, Not In Abstraction, And Certainly Not In Isolation.

To Revolt Within Society In Order To Make It A Little Better, To Bring About Certain Reforms, Is Like The Revolt Of Prisoners To Improve Their Life Within The Prison Walls; And Such Revolt Is No Revolt At All, It Is Just Mutiny. Do You See The Difference? Revolt Within Society Is Like The Mutiny Of Prisoners Who Want Better Food, Better Treatment Within The Prison; But Revolt Born Of Understanding Is An Individual Breaking Away From Society, And That Is Creative Revolution.

The Difference Between Me And You Is... That I Don't Mind What Happens.

I Do Not Know If You Have Ever Noticed That The More You Struggle To Understand, The Less You Understand Any Problem. But, The Moment You Cease To Struggle And Let The Problem Tell You The Whole Story, Give All Its Significance - Then There Is Understanding, Which Means, Obviously, That To Understand, The Mind Must Be Quiet.

But The Healing Of The Mind Is Something Totally Different. That Healing Gradually Takes Place If You Are With Nature, With That Orange On The Tree, And The Blade Of Grass That Pushes Through The Cement, And The Hills Covered, Hidden, By The Clouds.

What You Are The World Is. And Without Your Transformation, There Can Be No Transformation Of The World.

The Reality Is That I Am The Teacher.

Joy Is Something Entirely Different From Pleasure.

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