There is no enemy but your greed and wrong ways of thought. Be free from these and you will have no enemy.
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Daily quotes by philosopher J. Krishnamurti, selected by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust at Brockwood Park
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Perhaps there is another way, the way of love and intelligence. This needs individual awakening.
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Human beings are supposed to be more thoughtful and intelligent than the beasts of the field and the jungle. If we use their intelligence, the course of this civilization may be changed.
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He was a man tethered to certain political and religious beliefs, and he went only as far as the rope allowed, and the rope was not very long.
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As a tree soon dies if its branches are continually cut down, so the thinker withers if every thought is observed, studied and understood.
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You are free to speculate about reality, but since you are not free, your speculation will not be that of the real.
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Through self-awareness and self-knowledge comes right thinking, and it is right thinking that will bring peace and joy.
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The world will destroy itself, slowly or rapidly, according to its mounting greed, violence, and lust. It will have no peace or happiness till each individual realizes the imperative necessity of putting aside ill will, lust, and ignorance.
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To reform politics, the affairs of the State, is to waste, dissipate thought. To be occupied with the symptom, with the result, is to bring further confusion; and only with the eradication of the cause is there clarity and order.
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The State is not higher than the individual, for he creates it; it is born out of his own pattern. And as most individuals are confused, envious, seeking power, violent, the State then is organized violence, organized power, organized confusion.
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Without right thinking, politics becomes a game in itself and a disastrous game for the rest of humanity. Then the few manipulate the many.
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Politics is only one branch of life, and to focus one’s whole attention on it is to worship the part, and in the development of the part, there is conflict, confusion and antagonism.
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Attachment to experience and the scars of experience bind thought-feeling to time, which creates the self, the ‘I’.
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If you think out, feel out each repetitive thought-feeling and complete it as far as you can, you will find that it ceases to return. For, in understanding there is freedom.
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Certain thoughts and feelings repeat themselves again and again. Why do these thoughts return over and over again? Is it not because they are not completed, followed through, thought out, and felt out to their fullest and deepest extent?
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Right thinking is not possible without thought freeing itself from prejudice and identification.
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Without being aware of your conditioning, however much you may try to think clearly, your thoughts will be obscured, limited.
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The dissolution of the cause of misery is our chief concern; to dissolve it you must comprehend yourself.
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Will a thin layer of superficial knowledge, out of books, out of learned professors, solve our problems?
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If you want to reform society, you must be sure that it also wants that; otherwise, your help and enthusiasm are used for its own ends.
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If the helper and the helped are going in the same direction, towards the same end, then her help will bring about the right response. But if she is seeking an end which is not that of the helped, then her help will be misused.
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Conflict ceases because all craving, the cause of conflict, ignorance and sorrow, has come to an end. In the fullness of self-knowledge there is peace and sublime wisdom.
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Interpretation of dreams is useless without understanding the interpreter.
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Through constant awareness of every thought-feeling, the many layers of consciousness are penetrated.
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The everlastingness of memory, of time, is not the timeless, the eternal.
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To sacrifice the present for the future is to invite disaster and misery.
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The dreamer and his dreams are one; to interpret his dreams, the dreamer must comprehend himself.
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Psychological time is memory: the ‘I was’, the ‘I am’, the ‘I will be’. Memory is uncompleted thought-feeling and action. This unfulfilled thought-feeling gives continuity, identity, and this self-enclosing memory strengthens itself by its own incessant demands and activities.
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Consciousness permeates time; it is the result of time; it is time itself, so it can foresee its future or look into its past.
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As long as the mind is moving from the known to the known, it is ‘dead’, and a ‘dead’ thing cannot understand anything.
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We deny death and hold on to God, though we do not know what God is.
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We have spent centuries in studying reality, but we have hardly spent five minutes in studying death. We have avoided death as something abominable.
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Understanding comes not through effort but spontaneously when there is an effortless relaxation.
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If we do not know how to listen, our mind is so filled with our own thoughts, our own problems, our own conclusions and our own questions, that it is almost impossible to listen to somebody.
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As fear is a conditioned response, our concern should be not to condemn it or to justify it but to be aware of it as and when it arises and not run away from it.
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We know how fear distorts and makes the mind small and also poisons the system.
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A conditioned mind can only think of the known and not of the unknown. Therefore, the conditioned mind can never find reality, God.
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Goaded by the memory of what we experienced, we seek to have a similar experience again.
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Every attempt to run away from fear fails, and the mind is continually engaged in going from one escape to another – only to find ultimately that every such attempt is futile.
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There will be fear as long as we are protecting ourselves with property, relationship, name, ideas, beliefs, etc. If we let go any of these, we are nothing.
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