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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?

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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?

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

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

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You Can Only Be Afraid Of What You Think You Know.

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Look What Is Happening In The World - We Are Being Conditioned By Society, By The Culture We Live In, And That Culture Is The Product Of Man. There Is Nothing Holy, Or Divine, Or Eternal About Culture.

Right Education Should Help The Student, Not Only To Develop His Capacities, But To Understand His Own Highest Interest.

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

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.

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.

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Can The Mind Resolve A Psychological Problem Immediately?

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I Think One Has To Understand, Not As A Theory, Not As A Speculative, Entertaining Concept, But Rather As An Actual Fact - That We Are The World And The World Is Us. The World Is Each One Of Us; To Feel That, To Be Really Committed To It And To Nothing Else, Brings About A Feeling Of Great Responsibility And An Action That Must Not Be Fragmentary, But Whole.

Merely To Stuff The Child With A Lot Of Information, Making Him Pass Examinations, Is The Most Unintelligent Form Of Education.

In Obedience There Is Always Fear, And Fear Darkens The Mind.

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

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Happiness Is Strange; It Comes When You Are Not Seeking It. When You Are Not Making An Effort To Be Happy, Then Unexpectedly, Mysteriously, Happiness Is There, Born Of Purity, Of A Loveliness Of Being.

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Freedom From Something Is Not Freedom.

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.

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.

You May Be Ignorant Of All The Books In The World, And I Hope You Are, Of All The Latest Theories, But That Is Not Ignorance.

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Learning Is Not The Accumulation Of Knowledge. Learning Is Movement From Moment To Moment.

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

When You Do Not Name A Group Of People, You Are Compelled To Look At Each Individual Face And Not Treat Them All As The Mass.

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

The Moment You Follow Someone You Cease To Follow Truth.

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

The Word 'innocence' Means A Mind That Is Incapable Of Being Hurt.

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If You Wish To Produce A Perfect Rose, You Must Cut Off The Other Buds Which Are Spoiling The Growth Of The Perfect Flower.

It Is Utterly And Irrevocably Possible To Empty All Hurts And Therefore To Love, To Have Compassion. To Have Compassion Means To Have Passion For All Things, Not Just Between Two People, But For All Human Beings, For All Things Of The Earth, The Animals, The Trees - Everything The Earth Contains. When We Have Such Compassion We Will Not Despoil The Earth As We Are Doing Now And We Will Have No Wars.

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.

Truth Is A Pathless Land, And You Cannot Approach It By Any Path Whatsoever, By Any Religion, By Any Sect. Truth, Being Limitless, Unconditioned, Unapproachable By Any Path Whatsoever, Cannot Be Organized; Nor Should Any Organisation Be Formed To Lead Or To Coerce People Along Any Particular Path.

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

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

To Know Yourself You Need Not Go To Any Book, To Any Priest, To Any Psychologist. The Whole Treasure Is Within Yourself.

Tradition Implies Authority, Conformity, Imitation, Following.

Only When The Mind Is Still, Tranquil, Not Expecting Or Grasping Or Resisting A Single Thing, Is It Possible To See What Is True. It Is The Truth That Liberates, Not Your Effort To Be Free.

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.

As Long As You Are Held Within A Pattern You Must Create Disorder In The World.

There Is No Partial Sensitivity; Either It Is The State Of One's Whole Being, Total Consciousness Or It Is Not There At All

To Understand Yourself Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

We Never See A Tree Except Through The Image That We Have Of It, The Concept Of That Tree; But The Concept, The Knowledge, The Experience, Is Entirely Different From The Actual Tree. Look At A Tree And You Will Find How Extraordinarily Difficult It Is To See It Completely, So That No Image, No Screen, Comes Between The Seeing And The Actual Fact. By Completely I Mean With The Totality Of Your Mind And Heart, Not A Fragment Of It.

You Only Learn When You Give Your Whole Being To Something. When You Give Your Whole Being To Mathematics,you Learn; But When You Are In A State Of Contradiction, When You Do Not Want To Learn But Are Forced To Learn, Then It Becomes Merely A Process Of Accumulation. To Learn Is Like Reading A Novel With Innumerable Characters; It Requires Your Full Attention, Not Contradictory Attention.

The Beauty Of Meditation Is That You Never Know Where You Are, Where You Are Going, What The End Is.

I Should Say That All Compromise Is A "stepping Down" Of The Truth, Is Trying To Reduce Something Which Cannot Be Reduced, And That For Anyone Who Has Understood Life These Compromises Are Impossible.

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

Belief Conditions Experience, And Experience Then Strengthens Belief.

The World Is Me And I Am The World.

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.

Happiness Comes Uninvited: And The Moment That You Are Conscious That You Are Happy, You Are No Longer Happy.

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

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

Freedom Lies Beyond The Field Of Consciousness.

Meditation Is Not A Withdrawal From Life. Meditation Is A Process Of Understanding Oneself.

When You Practice Meditation, The Meditator Becomes All-important And Not The Movement Of Meditation.

One Of The Functions Of Thought Is To Be Occupied All The Time With Something. Most Of Us Want To Have Our Minds Continually Occupied So That We Are Prevented From Seeing Ourselves As We Actually Are. We Are Afraid To Be Empty. We Are Afraid To Look At Our Fears.

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

Life Is Both Pleasure And Pain, Is It Not? But Why Should We Cling To Pleasure And Avoid Pain? Why Not Merely Live With Both? If You Cling To Pleasure What Happens? You Get Attached, Do You Not?

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

The Ambitious Man Has Never Found His True Vocation.

My Contention Is That It Is Impossible To Limit Truth, For That Would Mean That You Were Stepping Down The Truth To The Individual, Who Is Limited. It Would Be Useless To Lay Down A Crystallized Method For Everyone To Follow.

What You Believe You Experience.

The More You Know Yourself, The More Clarity There Is. Self-knowledge Has No End - You Don't Come To An Achievement, You Don't Come To A Conclusion. It Is An Endless River.

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

From These Prejudices There Arises Conflict, Transient Joys And Suffering. But We Are Unconscious Of This, Unconscious That We Are Slaves To Certain Forms Of Tradition, To Social And Political Environment, To False Values.

Intuition Is The Only True Guide In Life.

As The World Has To Attain The Fulfilment Of Eternal Life, To Me It Does Not In The Least Matter What I Am Called -'enlightened One', 'son Of God', Or Something Else. To Me, It Has No Purpose - As Little As When The Buddha Said, 'i Am The Enlightened One'.

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

And For This You Must Have Quiet And Solitude. But Society Does Not Allow You To Have Them. You Must Be With People, Outwardly Active At All Costs. If You Are Alone You Are Considered Antisocial Or Peculiar, Or You Are Afraid Of Your Own Loneliness.

You Are The World And The World Is You.

Without Knowing Myself, I Have No Real Basis For Thinking.

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.

Space And Time Are Real For The Man Who Is Yet Imperfect, And Space Is Divided For Him Into Dimensions; Time, Into Past, Present, And Future.

Thought Nourishes, Sustains And Gives Continuity To Fear And Pleasure.

A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

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

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.

The Flowering Of Love Is Meditation.

All Life Is A Movement In Relationship. There Is No Living Thing On Earth Which Is Not Related To Something Or Other.

Only The Free Mind Knows What Love Is.

Where There Is Love, Do What You Will, It Will Be Right Action. It Will Never Bring Conflict To One's Life. In The Flame Of Love, All Fear Is Consumed.

The Moment You Venture Out, Something Takes Place In You And About You. Life Comes To Your Aid In Various Ways. You May Not Like The Form In Which It Comes To You - It May Be Misery, Struggle, Starvation - But When You Invite Life, Things Begin To Happen.

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.

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What Is Of Great Importance Is That Everyone Should Concern Himself With What I Am Saying, Rather Than With The Personality Of The Teacher, The Body Of The Teacher, Where He Dwells, And So On. That Will Lead To Confusion.

How Very Important It Is To Bring About In The Human Mind The Radical Revolution. The Crisis Is A Crisis In Consciousness, A Crisis That Cannot Anymore Accept The Old Norms, The Old Patterns, The Ancient Traditions. Considering What The World Is Now With All The Misery, Conflict, Destructive Brutality, Aggression And So On... Man Is Still As He Was, Is Still Brutal, Violent, Aggressive, Acquisitive, Competitive And Has Built A Society Along These Lines.

In The Denial Of That Disorder There Is Order.

When You Say That I Have Followers, Let Me Assure You That I Do Not Want Followers, Nor Would I Ever Encourage The Idea Of Following.

We Want To Be Famous As A Writer, As A Poet, As A Painter, As A Politician, As A Singer, Or What You Will. Why? Because We Really Don't Love What We Are Doing. If You Loved To Sing, Or To Paint, Or To Write Poems, If You Really Loved It You Would Not Be Concerned With Whether You Are Famous Or Not.

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

Love, And Don't Be Caught In Opinions And Ideas About What Love Is Or Should Be.

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

By Our Pontifical Assertions, Our Superior Impatience, And Our Casual Brushing Aside Of Their Curiosity, We Do Not Encourage Their Inquiry, For We Are Rather Apprehensive Of What May Be Asked Of Us; We Do Not Foster Their Discontent, For We Ourselves Have Ceased To Question.

Can't You Fall In Love And Not Have A Possessive Relationship? I Love Someone And She Loves Me And We Get Married - That Is All Perfectly Straightforward And Simple, In That There Is No Conflict At All.

Falling In Love

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

The Man Who Is Seeking Truth Is Free Of All Societies And Cultures.

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