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Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any of that guidance, how pertinent any of that wisdom, in the end you di... See more

Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian

Neither Yoga-Veda shall teach me any more, nor Atharva-Veda, nor the ascetics, nor any kind of teachings. I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha."

Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha

The understanding of the actual is possible only when the ideal, the what should be, is erased from the mind; that is, only when the false is seen as the false.

J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

So, to find out an action which is not based on idea, concept and formula you must listen to the whole of that structure, see, understand that whole structure completely, and in the very understanding of it you have turned away from it. And therefore your mind then is in a state of negation, not bitterness, not cynicism, but because it sees the fut

jkrishnamurti.org • Action Without Conflict | J. Krishnamurti

You know, to destroy is to create. We must destroy, not the buildings, not the social or economic system—this comes about daily—but the psychological, the unconscious and the conscious defenses, securities that one has built up rationally, individually, deeply, and superficially.

Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti

Now, what are we afraid of? Are we afraid of a fact, or of an idea about the fact? Please see this point.

Jiddu Krishnamurti • On Love and Loneliness

who binds you? Don’t look outside; look into the mind, investigate the opinionated mind. Become familiar with its opinions and judgments; then you won’t be so vulnerable to them.

Katherine Thanas • The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is

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Jiddu Krishnamurti • 4 highlights

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So there must be freedom from direction. Please see the logic of it, the sanity of it. There must be freedom from a conclusion. Although a conclusion may give one a great deal of energy, it is a kind of energy that is wasteful. The mind must be free of the response of thought. It must be free of ideals because they again have direction. The mind mu... See more