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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"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."

Spiritual Animal Rocks

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society."

Thinking Spiritual Love Is

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"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?"

Spiritual Pain Why Not

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure."

Self Spiritual Compassion

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity."

Self Spiritual Struggle

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear."

Spiritual Sorrow Demand

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind."

Spiritual Understanding Meditation

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality."

Reality Spiritual Generosity

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing."

Reality Spiritual Discipline

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute."

Spiritual Watches Minutes

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness."

Lying Spiritual Awakening

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Intelligence is the seeing of what is."

Spiritual Seeing

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian

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"My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things."

Spiritual Crazy Journey

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Jimi Hendrix Musician, Guitarist

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"Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts."

Art Spiritual Music

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"Before you can do something, you must first be something."

Inspirational Spiritual Firsts

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John F. Kennedy Politician

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"Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow."

Children Spiritual Presidential

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John H. Dietrich Theologian, Author

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"The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of spiritual life is from within."

Mean Spiritual Humanity

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Jonathan Cain Musician, Songwriter

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"My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for."

Spiritual Father Jesus

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker

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"Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean."

Spiritual Motivational Water

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

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"The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves."

Spiritual Reflection Depth

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