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Therefore Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of…
- True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then…
- To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to…
- Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how…
- Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.
- If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations,…
- So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have…
- So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there…
- The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive…
- Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.
- Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
- Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an…
- Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
- There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea,…
- 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…
- All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and…
- It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for…
- One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
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- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Francis Bacon
- Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. — Francis Bacon
- A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to… — Mikhail Bakunin
- We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. — Douglas Adams