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Book Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
- Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?
- That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not…
- The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be…
- Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas…
- You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not…
- Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
- Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by…
- 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…
- No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you…
- 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…
- There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life,…
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