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I Was Supremely Happy, For I Had Seen. Nothing Could Ever Be The Same. I Have Drunk At The Clear And Pure Waters And My Thirst Was Appeased. ...i Have Seen The Light. I Have Touched Compassion Which Heals All Sorrow And Suffering; It Is Not For Myself, But For The World. ...love In All Its Glory Has Intoxicated My Heart; My Heart Can Never Be Closed. I Have Drunk At The Fountain Of Joy And Eternal Beauty. I Am God-intoxicated.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I Was Supremely Happy,

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I Was Supremely Happy, For I Had Seen. Nothing Could Ever Be The Same. I Have Drunk At The Clear And Pure Waters And My Thirst Was Appeased. ...i Have Seen The Light. I Have Touched Compassion Which Heals All Sorrow And Suffering; It Is Not For Myself, But For The World. ...love In All Its Glory Has Intoxicated My Heart; My Heart Can Never Be Closed. I Have Drunk At The Fountain Of Joy And Eternal Beauty. I Am God-intoxicated.

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We Are Concerned, Not With The Development Of Just One Capacity, Such As That Of A Mathematician, Or A Scientist, Or A Musician, But With The Total Development Of The Student As A Human Being.

Without Understanding The Process Of The Self, There Is No Bais For Thought, There Is No Basis For Right Thinking.

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.

[on The Secret To A Happy, Content Life] Do You Want To Know What My Secret Is? I Don’t Mind What Happens.

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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Constantly To Seek The Purpose Of Life Is One Of The Odd Escapes Of Man. If He Finds What He Seeks It Will Not Be Worth That Pebble On The Path.

Begin Where You Are. Read Every Word, Every Phrase, Every Paragraph Of The Mind, As It Operates Through Thought.

A Man Who Is Seeking To Understand Violence Does Not Belong To Any Country, To Any Religion, To Any Political Party Or Partial System; He Is Concerned With The Total Understanding Of Mankind.

Love May Be The Ultimate Solution To All Man's Difficulties, Problems And Travails.

Violence Is Not Merely Killing Another. It Is Violence When We Use A Sharp Word, When We Make A Gesture To Brush Away A Person, When We Obey Because There Is Fear. So Violence Isn't Merely Organized Butchery In The Name Of God, In The Name Of Society Or Country. Violence Is Much More Subtle, Much Deeper, And We Are Inquiring Into The Very Depths Of Violence.

So When You Are Listening To Somebody, Completely, Attentively, Then You Are Listening Not Only To The Words, But Also To The Feeling Of What Is Being Conveyed, To The Whole Of It, Not Part Of It.

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.

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.

If The Mind Could Cease Measuring Itself Against The Hero, The Perfect, The Glorious And All That, It Would Be What It Is.

Meditation Is The Action Of Silence.

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.

The Ability To Observe Without Evaluating Is The Highest Form Of Intelligence.

It Is Necessary That One Be A Light To Oneself In A World That Is Becoming Utterly Dark.

The Very Desire To Be Certain,to Be Secure,is The Beginning Of Bondage.it's Only When The Mind Is Not Caught In The Net Of Certainty,and Is Not Seeking Certainty, That It Is In A State Of Discovery.

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.

Using Another As A Means Of Satisfaction And Security Is Not Love. Love Is Never Security; Love Is A State In Which There Is No Desire To Be Secure; It Is A State Of Vulnerability.

The Society In Which We Live Is The Result Of Our Psychological State.

Conflict Is Not In The Feeling Of Being In Love. The Feeling Of Being In Love Is Utterly Without Conflict. There Is No Loss Of Energy In Being In Love.

Analysis Does Not Transform Consciousness.

When The Mind Goes Beyond The Thought Of 'the Me,' The Experiencer, The Observer, The Thinker, Then There Is A Possibility Of A Happiness That Is Incorruptible.

Inspirational Life

Goodness, Generosity, Or Love Does Not Come Into Being Save Through The Search For Reality.

When We Suffer We Have Made It Into A Personal Affair. We Shut Out All The Suffering Of Mankind.

If You Have A Great Many Desires, You Will Gradually Eliminate Them One By One, Until You Allow Certain Desires To Dominate And The Others To Die Away.

Self-knowledge Is Only From Moment To Moment, And Therefore There Is A Creative Happiness From Moment To Moment.

Ugliness Is A Lack Of Harmony, Assuredly. And Evil Is The Same Thing Of Course.

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