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Freedom Of Life Does Not Mean Disorder Of Life, Does Not Mean Chaos, And Just Everyone Doing Anything He Wants. That Is Not The Freedom Of Life. The Tree, When You Give It A Chance, Protect It When It Is Young, Will Grow Straight, Because It Has Developed Its Own Resistance; But The Moment You Make It Delicate, Then It Gets Crooked.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Freedom Of Life Does

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Freedom Of Life Does Not Mean Disorder Of Life, Does Not Mean Chaos, And Just Everyone Doing Anything He Wants. That Is Not The Freedom Of Life. The Tree, When You Give It A Chance, Protect It When It Is Young, Will Grow Straight, Because It Has Developed Its Own Resistance; But The Moment You Make It Delicate, Then It Gets Crooked.

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Does Choice Exist When I See Something Very Clearly?

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Why Do You Want To Read Others' Books When There Is The Book Of Yourself?

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In The Space Which Thought Creates Around Itself There Is No Love. This Space Divides Man From Man.

When We Talk About Understanding, Surely It Takes Place Only When The Mind Listens Completely - The Mind Being Your Heart, Your Nerves, Your Ears- When You Give Your Whole Attention To It.

Can Another Help Bring About A Transformation In You? If He Can, You Are Not Transformed; You Are Merely Dominated, Influenced.

The Word 'innocence' Means 'incapable Of Being Hurt'. To Have A Mind That Is Not Capable Of Being Hurt, Does Not Mean That It Has Built Up A Lot Of Resistance - On The Contrary, Such A Mind Is Dying To Everything That It Has Known In Which There Has Been Conflict, Pleasure And Pain. Only Then Is The Mind Innocent; That Means It Can Love. You Cannot Love With Memory, Love Is Not A Matter Of Remembrance, Of Time.

Live With It. You Live With Pleasure, Don't You? Why Don't You Live With Suffering Completely? Can You Live With It In The Sense Of Not Escaping From It? What Takes Place? Watch. The Mind Is Very Clear, Sharp. It Is Faced With The Fact. The Very Suffering Transformed Into Passion Is Enormous. From That Arises A Mind That Can Never Be Hurt. Full Stop. That Is The Secret.

The Primary Cause Of Disorder In Ourselves Is The Seeking Of Reality Promised By Another... It Is A Most Extraordinary Thing That Although Most Of Us Are Opposed To Political Tyranny And Dictatorship, We Inwardly Accept The Authority, The Tyranny, Of Another To Twist Our Minds And Our Way Of Life.

When All Authority Of Every Kind Is Put Aside, Denied, Then You Can Find Out For Yourself.

We Are Very Defensive, And Therefore Aggressive, When We Hold On To A Particular Belief, A Dogmas, Or When We Worship Our Particular Nationality, With The Rag That Is Called The Flag.

That Is, Sir, There Can Only Be Communication, Communion, When You And I Are On The Same Level, And With The Same Intensity, At The Same Time.

Yoga Exercises Are Excellent; The Speaker Does Them Every Day, For An Hour Or More; But That Is Merely Physical Exercise, To Keep The Body Healthy, And So On.

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.

All Paths Do Not Lead To Truth. There Is No Path To Truth, It Must Come To You.

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'.

If You Have The Desire, If You Establish The Goal - Which Is Harmony, Which Is Happiness Through Liberation- Then These Stages Of Revolt, Of War, Of Struggle, Can Be Avoided - Should Be Avoided. You Are Not Going To Wallow In The Gutter If You Can Jump Over It.

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

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.

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.

Most Of Us Waste Our Energy Through Chattering - Endlessly Chattering, Gossiping, Criticising, Backbiting.

Have You Ever Noticed A Tree Standing Naked Against The Sky, How Beautiful It Is? All Its Branches Are Outlined, And In Its Nakedness There Is A Poem, There Is A Song. Every Leaf Is Gone And It Is Waiting For The Spring. When The Spring Comes, It Again Fills The Tree With The Music Of Many Leaves, Which In Due Season Fall And Are Blown Away. And This Is The Way Of Life.

War Is The Spectacular And Bloody Projection Of Our Everyday Living. We Precipitate War Out Of Our Daily Lives; And Without A Transformation In Ourselves, There Are Bound To Be National And Racial Antagonisms, The Childish Quarreling Over Ideologies, The Multiplication Of Soldiers, The Saluting Of Flags, And All The Many Brutalities That Go To Create Organized Murder.

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

In The Denial Of That Disorder There Is Order.

Sentimentality And Emotionalism Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Love.

It Is Important To Understand, Not Intellectually But Actually In Your Daily Life, How You Have Built Images About Your Wife, Your Husband, Your Neighbor, Your Child, Your Country, Your Leaders, Your Politicians, Your Gods-you Have Nothing But Images. The Images Create The Space Between You And What You Observe And In That Space There Is Conflict, So What We Are Going To Find Out Now Together Is Whether It Is Possible To Be Free Of The Space We Create, Not Only Outside Ourselves But In Ourselves, The Space Which Divides People In All Their Relationships.

Analysis Does Not Transform Consciousness.

You Would Never Hear Any Song Played Twice In The Same Way. The Words Were Retained, But Within A Certain Frame There Was Great Latitude, And The Musician Could Improvise To His Heart's Content; And The More The Variations And Combinations, The Greater The Musician.

To Know Oneself Is To Study Oneself In Action, Which Is Relationship.

You Cannot Prevent A Man Getting Drunk If He Wishes To Do So, But When He Becomes A Nuisance, Then You Interfere.

Ugliness And Evil Are Necessary For Growth But They May Be Experienced Vicariously.

Identification Prevents And Perverts The Flow Of Thought-feeling.

True Understanding Is Possible Only When We Are Fully Conscious Of Our Thought, Not As An Operative Observer On This Thought, But Completely And Without The Intervention Of A Choice.

Change In Society Is Of Secondary Importance; That Will Come About Naturally, Inevitably, When You As A Human Being Bring About The Change In Yourself.

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