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In This Country, Unfortunately, As All Over The World, We Care So Little, We Have No Deep Feeling About Anything. Most Of Us Are Intellectual-intellectuals In The Superficial Sense Of Being Very Clever, Full Of Words And Theories About What Is Right And What Is Wrong, About How We Should Think, What We Should Do. Mentally We Are Highly Developed, But Inwardly There Is Very Little Substance Or Significance; And It Is This Inward Substance That Brings About True Action, Which Is Not Action According To An Idea.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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In This Country, Unfortunately,

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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In This Country, Unfortunately, As All Over The World, We Care So Little, We Have No Deep Feeling About Anything. Most Of Us Are Intellectual-intellectuals In The Superficial Sense Of Being Very Clever, Full Of Words And Theories About What Is Right And What Is Wrong, About How We Should Think, What We Should Do. Mentally We Are Highly Developed, But Inwardly There Is Very Little Substance Or Significance; And It Is This Inward Substance That Brings About True Action, Which Is Not Action According To An Idea.

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Those Who Play A Safe Game Die Very Safely.

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Freedom And Love Go Together. Love Is Not A Reaction. If I Love You Because You Love Me, That Is Mere Trade, A Thing To Be Bought In The Market; It Is Not Love. To Love Is Not To Ask Anything In Return, Not Even To Feel That You Are Giving Something- And It Is Only Such Love That Can Know Freedom.

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.

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

To Die Every Day To Every Problem, Every Pleasure, And Not Carry Over Any Problem At All; So The Mind Remains Tremendously Attentive, Active, Clear.

The Only Thing That Really Matters Is That There Be An Action Of Goodness, Love And Intelligence In Living. Is Goodness Individual Or Collective, Is Love Personal Or Impersonal, Is Intelligence Yours, Mine Or Somebody Else? If It Is Yours Or Mine Then It Is Not Intelligence, Or Love, Or Goodness. If Goodness Is An Affair Of The Individual Or Of The Collective, According To One's Particular Preference Or Decision, Then It Is No Longer Goodness.

The Demand To Be Safe In A Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow And Fear.

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

You Are This, Which Does Not Satisfy, So You Want To Be That. If There Were An Understanding Of This, Would That Come Into Being? Because You Do Not Understand This, You Create That, Hoping Through That To Understand Or To Escape From This.

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A Man Who Says, 'i Want To Change, Tell Me How To', Seems Very Earnest, Very Serious, But He Is Not. He Wants An Authority Whom He Hopes Will Bring About Order In Himself. But Can Authority Ever Bring About Inward Order? Order Imposed From Without Must Always Breed Disorder.

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.

But Our Minds Are Bound To The Yardstick Of Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, And With That Yardstick We Try To Inquire Into The Unknown, To Measure That Which Is Not Measurable.

Sorrow Is Not In Death But In Loneliness, And Conflict Comes When You Seek Consolation, Forgetfullness, Explanations, And Illusions.

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Freedom Lies Beyond The Field Of Consciousness.

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The Unknown Is Not Measurable By The Known. Time Cannot Measure The Timeless, The Eternal, That Immensity Which Has No Beginning And No End... When We Try To Measure Something Which Is Not Measurable, We Only Get Caught In Words.

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There Is No End To Education. It Is Not That You Read A Book, Pass An Examination, And Finish With Education. The Whole Of Life, From The Moment You Are Born To The Moment You Die, Is A Process Of Learning.

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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.

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If People Who Say They Love Their Children Meant It, Would There Be War? And Would There Be Division Of Nationalities - Would There Be These Separations?

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What Is Needed, Rather Than Running Away Or Controlling Or Suppressing Or Any Other Resistance, Is Understanding Fear; That Means, Watch It, Learn About It, Come Directly Into Contact With It. We Are To Learn About Fear, Not How To Escape From It.

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The End Is The Beginning Of All Things, Suppressed And Hidden, Awaiting To Be Released Through The Rhythm Of Pain And Pleasure.

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When You Once See Something As False Which You Have Accepted As True, As Natural, As Human, Then You Can Never Go Back To It.

Disillusionment

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A Man Who Is Really Earnest Must Begin With Himself, He Must Be Passively Aware Of All His Thoughts, Feelings And Actions.

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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.

Beyond All Explanations Which A Good Brain Can Give, Why Do We Choose The Worse And Not The Better, Why Hate Rather Than Love, Why Greed And Not Generosity, Why Self-centred Activity And Not Open Total Action? Why Be Mean When There Are Soaring Mountains And Flashing Streams? Why Jealousy And Not Love? Why?

My Discord Must Be Different From Yours; My Revolt Must Not Be The Same Thing As Yours. It Will Not Be A Revolt If It Is Moulding Itself Around Your Revolt.

Religion Becomes A Matter Of Belief, And Belief Acts As A Limitation On The Mind; And The Mind Then Is Never Free.

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In Nothingness, There Is Everything, Energy. The Ending Is A Beginning.

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If You Lose Touch With Nature You Lose Touch With Humanity.

Meditation Is The Action Of Silence.

Achieve Order Within Yourself...an Inward Tranquility Which Knows No Disturbance At Any Moment...in The Daily Life Of The Home And The Office.

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

You Are The World And The World Is You.

Charity Is Unconscious Of Itself, There Is No Accumulation First And Then Distribution. It Is Like The Flower - Natural, Open, Spontaneous.

The Becoming Still Can Never Be The Being Still; Only With The Death Of Becoming Is There Being.

What Brings Understanding Is Love. When Your Heart Is Full, Then You Will Listen To The Teacher, To The Beggar, To The Laughter Of Children, To The Rainbow, And To The Sorrow Of Man. Under Every Stone And Leaf, That Which Is Eternal Exists.

We Are To Learn About Fear, Not How To Escape From It.

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.

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A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

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As Long As The Mind Is Seeking To Fill Itself, It Will Always Be Empty. When The Mind Is No Longer Concerned With Filling Its Own Emptiness, Then Only Does That Emptiness Cease To Be.

In Awareness There Is No Becoming, There Is No End To Be Gained. There Is Silent Observation Without Choice And Condemnation, From Which There Comes Understanding.

To Be Is To Be Related.

Take A Journey Into The Things Which You Are Carrying, The Known- Not Into The Unknown-into What You Already Know: Your Pleasures, Your Delights, Your Despairs, Your Sorrows. Take A Journey Into That, That Is All You Have.

But If You Have No Relationship With The Living Things On This Earth, You May Lose Whatever Relationship You Have With Humanity.

What Is Important In Meditation Is The Quality Of The Mind And The Heart.it Is Not What You Achieve, Or What You Say You Attain, But Rather The Quality Of A Mind That Is Innocent And Vulnerable.

We All Want To Be Famous People, And The Moment We Want To Be Something We Are No Longer Free.

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

Nothing Can Disturb The Calm Peace Of My Soul.

So Let Us Decide Whether You Want A Shelter, A Safety Zone, Which Will No Longer Yield Conflict, Whether You Want To Escape From The Present Conflict To Enter A Condition In Which There Shall Be No Conflict; Or Whether You Are Unaware, Unconscious Of This Conflict In Which You Exist. If You Are Unconscious Of The Conflict, That Is, The Battle That Is Taking Place Between That Self And The Environment, If You Are Unconscious Of That Battle, Then Why Do You Seek Further Remedies? Remain Unconscious.

You Must Understand The Whole Of Life, Not Just One Little Part Of It.

To Seek Fulfillment Is To Invite Frustration.

Belief Creates Its Own Experience; Therefore, Such An Experience Is Not True.

If We Can Really Understand The Problem, The Answer Will Come Out Of It, Because The Answer Is Not Separate From The Problem.

After All You Grow By Experience. But While Your Son Is Young, You Should Try To Set Before Him His Ultimate Goal.

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?

The Reality Of Truth Is Not To Be Bought, To Be Sold, To Be Repeated; It Cannot Be Caught In Books. It Has To Be Found From Moment To Moment, In The Smile, In The Tear, Under The Dead Leaf, In The Vagrant Thought, In The Fullness Of Love.

Intuition Is The Whisper Of The Soul.

That Is, When The Mind Ceases To Create, Then There Is Creation.

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

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

To Understand Life Is To Understand Ourselves, And That Is Both The Beginning And The End Of Education.

When We Stop Fighting With Ourselves, We Aren't Creating Anymore Conflict In Our Mind. Then Our Mind Can For The First Time Relax And Be Still. Then For The First Time Our Consciousness Can Become Whole And Unfragmented. Then Total Attention Can Be Given To All Of Our Thoughts And Feelings. And Then There Will Be Found A Gentleness And A Goodness In Us That Can Embrace All That Is Been Given In The World. Then A Deep Love For Everything Will Be The Result Of This Deep Attention. For This Total Attention, This Soft And Pure Consciousness That We Are, Is Nothing But Love Itself.

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

Surely Love Has Nothing To Do With The Mind, It Is Not The Product Of The Mind; Love Is Entirely Independent Of Calculation, Of Thought.

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

I Am Life. I Have No Name. I Am As The Fresh Breeze Of The Mountains.

No Book Can Teach You About Yourself, No Psychologist, None Of The Professors Or Philosophers. What They Can Teach You Is What They Think You Are Or What They Think You Should Be.

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Can Thought Be Silent?

It Is Only When The Mind Is Free From The Old That It Meets Everything Anew, And In That There Is Joy.

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Here Is My Secret: I Don't Mind What Happens.

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.

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.

Free Yourself From The Psychological Structure Of Society, Which Is To Free Yourself From The Essence Of Conflict.

And It Is Impossible To Treat Human Beings As Human Beings If You Label Them, If You Term Them, If You Give Them A Name As Hindus, Russians, Or What You Will. It Is So Much Easier To Label People, For Then You Can Pass By And Kick Them, Drop A Bomb On India Or Japan.

I Maintain That Truth Is A Pathless Land, And You Cannot Approach It By Any Path Whatsoever, By Any Religion, By Any Sect.

All Tradition Is Merely The Past.

It Is Love Alone That Leads To Right Action. What Brings Order In The World Is To Love And Let Love Do What It Will.

We Have So Committed Ourselves In Different Ways That We Have Hardly Any Time For Self-reflection, To Observe, To Study.

Only When Your Hearts Are Empty Of The Things Of The Mind, Is There Love. Then You Will Know What It Is To Love Without Separation, Without Distance, Without Time, Without Fear.

Wherever There Is A Suitable Environment For The Fulfilment Of Life, It Will Fulfil Itself.

I Would Teach My Child To Respect What Is Right - The Word Right Is A Difficult Word To Use - I Would Teach Him To Respect The Intrinsic Value Of Things. Do You See What I Mean? The True Proportion Of Things.

Introspection Is Self-improvement And Therefore Introspection Is Self-centeredness. Awareness Is Not Self-improvement. On The Contrary, It Is The Ending Of The Self, Of The “i,” With All Its Peculiar Idiosyncrasies, Memories, Demands, And Pursuits. In Introspection There Is Identification And Condemnation. In Awareness There Is No Condemnation Or Identification; Therefore, There Is No Self-improvement. There Is A Vast Difference Between The Two.

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.

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

Perception Without The Word, Which Is Without Thought, Is One Of The Strangest Phenomena. Then The Perception Is Much More Acute, Not Only With The Brain, But Also With All The Senses. Such Perception Is Not The Fragmentary Perception Of The Intellect Nor The Affair Of The Emotions. It Can Be Called A Total Perception, And It Is Part Of Meditation.

The Only Freedom Is The Freedom From The Known.

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?

Surely, It Is Only When The Mind Is Creatively Empty That It Is Capable Of Finding Out Whether There Is An Ultimate Reality Or Not. But, The Mind Is Never Creatively Empty; It Is Always Acquiring, Always Gathering, Living On The Past Or In The Future, Or Trying To Be Focused In The Immediate Present: It Is Never In That State Of Creativeness In Which A New Thing Can Take Place. As The Mind Is A Result Of Time, It Cannot Possibly Understand That Which Is Timeless, Eternal.

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

It Is Only The Dull, Sleepy Mind That Creates And Clings To Habit. A Mind That Is Attentive From Moment To Moment - Attentive To What It Is Saying, Attentive To The Movement Of Its Hands, Of Its Thoughts, Of Its Feelings - Will Discover That The Formation Of Further Habits Has Come To An End.

To Be Whole, Nonfragmented In Action, In Life, In Every Kind Of Relationship, That Is The Very Essence Of Sanity. Sanity Means To Be Whole, Healthy And Holy.

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.

How Can One Be Compassionate If You Belong To Any Religion, Follow Any Guru, Believe In Something, Believe In Your Scriptures, And So On, Attached To A Conclusion? When You Accept Your Guru, You Have Come To A Conclusion, Or When You Strongly Believe In God Or In A Saviour, This Or That, Can There Be Compassion? You May Do Social Work, Help The Poor Out Of Pity, Out Of Sympathy, Out Of Charity, But Is All That Love And Compassion?

Clever People, People Who Are Cunning, Do Not Know What Love Is Because Their Minds Are So Sharp, Because They Are So Clever, Because They Are So Superficial - Which Means To Be On The Surface, And Love Is Not A Thing That Exists On The Surface.

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Energy Functioning In A Pattern Becomes Matter. That Is All Life Is... Matter And Energy Are Interrelated.

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.

Am I Caught In A Self-centred, Narrow Little Cell Which Refuses To Look Beyond? Do I See It When You Come Along And Tell Me That My Brain Is The Brain Of All Mankind?

The Primary Cause Of Disorder In Ourselves Is The Seeking Of Reality Promised By Another.

There Is No Ideal In Observation. When You Have An Ideal, You Cease To Observe, You Are Then Merely Approximating The Present To The Idea, And Therefore There Is Duality, Conflict, And All The Rest Of It. The Mind Has To Be In The State When It Can See, Observe. The Experience Of The Observation Is Really An Astonishing State. In That There Is No Duality. The Mind Is Simply - Aware.

Isn't The Origin Of Conflict Ego? If There Is No Ego There Is No Becoming.

I Am All For Changing, Even If Mistakes Are Made In The Process. Mistakes Do Not Matter.

Why Does The Brain Retain The Memory Of The Hurt From Yesterday?

Let The Mind Be Empty, And Not Filled With The Things Of The Mind. Then There Is Only Meditation, And Not A Meditor Who Is Meditating . . . The Mind Must Be Clear, Without Movement, And In The Light Of That Clarity The Timeless Will Be Revealed.

Good Heredity And Environment Are Necessary. You Cannot Compare The Child Of A Savage With The Child Of A Civilized Person.

Heredity And Environment

The Moment You Have In Your Heart This Extraordinary Thing Called Love And Feel The Depth, The Delight, The Ecstasy Of It, You Will Discover That For You The World Is Transformed.

The Crisis Is Not Out There In The World, It Is Within Our Own Consciousness.

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.

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

Only The Mind That Has Emptied Itself Of The Known Is Creative. That Is Creation. What It Creates Has Nothing To Do With It. Freedom From The Known Is The State Of A Mind That Is In Creation.

All Ideologies Are Idiotic, Whether Religious Or Political, For It Is Conceptual Thinking, The Conceptual Word, Which Has So Unfortunately Divided Man.

To Be Absolutely Nothing Is To Be Beyond Measure.

Absolutely Nothing

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.

It Is A Great Art To Have An Abundance Of Knowledge And Experience - To Know The Richness Of Life, The Beauty Of Existence, The Struggles, The Miseries, The Laughter, The Tears - And Yet Keep Your Mind Very Simple; And You Can Have A Simple Mind Only When You Know How To Love.

Without Total Freedom, Every Perception, Every Objective Regard, Is Twisted. It Is Only The Man Who Is Totally Free That Can Look And Understand Immediately. Freedom Implies Really, Doesn't It, The Total Emptying Of The Mind. To Completely Empty The Whole Content Of The Mind — That Is Real Freedom.

Discipline Is Necessary To Curb The Mind, Otherwise There Is No Peace.

There's A Great And Unutterable Beauty In All This.

...choice In Every Form Is Conflict. Contradiction Is Inevitable In Choice; This Contradiction, Inner And Outer Breeds Confusion And Misery.

If You Do Not Give Your Children Freedom, When They Grow Up, They Will Break Away From The Family, And Then Your Hearts Will Be Broken.

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

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?

The Reality Is That I Am The Teacher.

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.

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

Insight Is Not A Matter Of Memory, Of Knowledge And Time, Which Are All Thought.

Hitler And Mussolini Were Only The Primary Spokesmen For The Attitude Of Domination And Craving For Power That Are In The Heart Of Almost Everyone. Until The Source Is Cleared, There Will Always Be Confusion And Hate, Wars And Class Antagonisms.

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

You Say You Love Your Wife. You Depend On Her; She Has Given You Her Body, Her Emotions, Her Encouragement, A Certain Feeling Of Security And Well-being. Then She Turns Away From You; She Gets Bored Or Goes Off With Someone Else, And Your Whole Emotional Balance Is Destroyed, And This Disturbance, Which You Don't Like, Is Called Jealousy. There Is Pain In It, Anxiety, Hate And Violence. So What You Are Really Saying Is, 'as Long As You Belong To Me I Love You But The Moment You Don't I Begin To Hate You.

You Cannot Say That All Experience Is Of Equal Value For All People.

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