"Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails."
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"Freedom is now or never."
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"When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be"."
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"Truth does not belong to an individual."
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"As the river enters the sea and loses itself in the sea, so Krishnamurti has entered into that Life which is represented by some as The Christ, by others as The Buddha, by others still, as the Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti as an entity fully developed has entered into the Sea of Life and is the Teacher, because the moment you enter into that Life -which is the fulfilment of all Teachers, which is life of all the Teachers - the individual as such ceases."
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"If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Meditation is the action of silence."
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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."
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"Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind."
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"It does not matter what you call the gaoler so long as he has the key that will open the door of your prison! Similarly, as I have the key to release Life from its prison, it does not matter in the least what you call either the key or myself. I am not concerned about the title."
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"Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems."
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"The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people."
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"Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has."
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"If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish."
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"To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one."
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"The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment."
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"Is it possible to observe without the observer?"
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"Each breath is transforming me into thine image."
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