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Begin Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
- 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…
- As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life…
- To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.
- The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like…
- To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.
- The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what…
- The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must…
- A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
- You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security…
- Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state…
- To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once…
- To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to…
- If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he… — Francis Bacon
- I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for… — Abigail Adams
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin