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Jiddu Krishnamurti

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It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#inspirational #joy #new #past #forgiveness

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#self-discovery #self-understanding #change

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#nature

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#psychology #freedom

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#nationalism #life

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#krishnamurti #self #life

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#education

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#education

The significance of life is living.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#life #meaning #life

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.


— Jiddu Krishnamurti


#relationship #inspirational






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The following day the symptoms and the experience intensified climaxing with a sense of "immense peace. Biography


Family background and childhood
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on May 12 1895 in the small town of Madanapalle in Madras Presidency (modern-day[update]Chittoor District in Andhra Pradesh). He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and Leadbeater leaders of the Society at the time who believed him to be a "vehicle" for an expected World Teacher.

In early adolescence he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras. He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and Leadbeater leaders of the Society at the time who believed him to be a "vehicle" for an expected World Teacher.

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