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Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Flower, Patterns

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Mean, Use
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Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Country, Love Is, Emotional
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Confusion, Choices, Misery
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2016). “Krishnamurti's Notebook”, p.162, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Different, Discord, Revolt
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Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jobs, Men, Understanding

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Running Away, Suppressing
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Tomorrow, Happens, Validity

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

Jiddu Krishnamurti
People, House, Suits
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Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ego, Becoming, Conflict

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Flower, Thinking, Looks
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, p.174, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Yoga, Exercise, Healthy
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1975). “Authentic report of the talks in Saanen, Switzerland, 1974”

Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Soul, Calm, My Soul

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?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Pain, Why Not

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Essence, Healthy

To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Important, Steps
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, World, Christ
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Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reality, Imagination, Needs
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To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Change, Spiritual
"Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World".

Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Responsibility, Doe, Mankind

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Men, May

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?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Brain, Becoming

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Long, Understanding, Moments
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Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Acquiring Knowledge, Imitation, Form

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Order, Inward

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