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Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your respon
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But the mind that understands its relationship with property, with people, with ideas, the mind which no longer struggles with the problems which relationship creates, and for which the solution is not withdrawal but the understanding of love—such a mind alone can understand reality.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Intelligence is the capacity to deal with life as a whole;
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
When we learn to love and understand ourselves and have true compassion for ourselves, then we can truly love and understand another person.
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It is only when I look at you without comparative judgment that I can understand you.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • On Love and Loneliness
Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your respon... See more
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
There is the family, the neighbor and the state, and by questioning their significance you will see that intelligence is spontaneous, not to be acquired, not to be cultivated. You have sown the seed of awareness and that produces the flower of intelligence.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti