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If You Lose Touch With Nature You Lose Touch With Humanity. If There's No Relationship With Nature Then You Become A Killer; Then You Kill Baby Seals, Whales, Dolphins, And Man Either For Gain, For "sport," For Food, Or For Knowledge. Then Nature Is Frightened Of You, Withdrawing Its Beauty. You May Take Long Walks In The Woods Or Camp In Lovely Places But You Are A Killer And So Lose Their Friendship. You Probably Are Not Related To Anything To Your Wife Or Your Husband.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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If You Lose Touch

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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If You Lose Touch With Nature You Lose Touch With Humanity. If There's No Relationship With Nature Then You Become A Killer; Then You Kill Baby Seals, Whales, Dolphins, And Man Either For Gain, For "sport," For Food, Or For Knowledge. Then Nature Is Frightened Of You, Withdrawing Its Beauty. You May Take Long Walks In The Woods Or Camp In Lovely Places But You Are A Killer And So Lose Their Friendship. You Probably Are Not Related To Anything To Your Wife Or Your Husband.

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My Only Concern Is To Set Men Absolutely, Unconditionally Free.

It Is No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society. We Have Lost It, Or We Have Never Had It; And, Because We Do Not Know How To Judge Anything, We Have Been Led Here And Pushed There, Beaten Up, Driven, Politically, Religiously And Socially. We Don't Know, But It Is Difficult To Say We Don't Know.

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 Craving To Become Causes Fears; To Be, To Achieve, And So To Depend Engenders Fear.

The Transformation Of The World Is Brought About By The Transformation Of Oneself.

To Meditate Is To Observe Yourself, For You Are Totally Responsible For Your Body, Mind, Thought.

Is There An Observation Which Is Not The Instrument Of Thought?

Meditation Is The Most Extraordinary Thing If You Know How To Do It, And You Cannot Possibly Learn From Anybody; And That's The Beauty Of It. It Isn't Something You Learn, A Technique, And Therefore There Is No Authority. Therefore If You Will Learn About Yourself, Watch Yourself, Watch The Way You Walk, The Way You Talk, How You Eat, What You Say, The Gossip, The Hate, The Jealousy. If You Are Aware Of It Without Any Choice, All That Is Part Of Meditation, And As You Go, As You Journey, As That Movement Goes, All That Movement Is Meditation. Then That Movement Is Endless, Timeless.

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.

We Are Empty Shells If We Do Not Possess, If We Do Not Fill Our Life With Furniture, With Music, With Knowledge, With This Or That. And That Shell Makes A Lot Of Noise, And That Noise We Call Living, And With That We Are Satisfied.

I Admire And Respect The Tenacity, Courage, And Patience Of The Unenlightened In The Face Of So Much Overwhelming Evidence

But If One Observes, One Will See That The Body Has Its Own Intelligence; It Requires A Great Deal Of Intelligence To Observe The Intelligence Of The Body.

That Is The First Thing To Learn - Not To Seek. When You Seek You Are Really Only Window-shopping. The Question Of Whether Or Not There Is A God Or Truth Or Reality, Or Whatever You Like To Call It, Can Never Be Answered By Books, By Priests, Philosophers Or Saviours. Nobody And Nothing Can Answer The Question But You Yourself And That Is Why You Must Know Yourself. Immaturity Lies Only In Total Ignorance Of Self. To Understand Yourself Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

Contentment Is Not Happiness. Contentment Is Stagnation And Decay, Whereas Happiness Is Life And Growth.

If You Come Across Fear, Stare It In Its Eyes. Face It And You Will Notice That Fear Fades Away.

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.

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

Intuition Is The Whisper Of The Soul.

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.

You Must Know For Yourself, Directly, The Truth Of Yourself And You Cannot Realize It Through Another, However Great. There Is No Authority That Can Reveal It.

To Be Absolutely Nothing Is To Be Beyond Measure.

Absolutely Nothing

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

Freedom Is Entirely Different From Revolt. There Is No Such Thing As Doing Right Or Wrong When There Is Freedom. You Are Free And From That Centre You Act.

Everyone Must Go Through All Experiences But They Need Not Go Through Them All In Reality -they Can Do It Vicariously, By Imagination.

To Understand What Is Right Meditation There Must Be An Awareness Of The Operation Of One's Own Consciousness, And Then There Is Complete Attention.

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 Can Only Be Afraid Of What You Think You Know.

You Think You Know

If We Could, And We Must, Establish A Deep Long Abiding Relationship With Nature, With The Actual Trees, The Bushes, The Flowers, The Grass And The Fast Moving Clouds, Then We Would Never Slaughter Another Human Being For Any Reason Whatsoever.

Awareness Is That State Of Mind Which Takes In Everything-the Crows Flying Across The Sky, The Flowers On The Trees, The People Sitting In Front, The Colors They Are Wearing - Being Extensively Aware, Which Needs Watching, Observing, Taking In The Shape Of The Leaf, The Shape Of The Trunk, The Shape Of The Head Of Another, What He Is Doing.

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