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Freedom From The Known
Freedom From The Known
Freedom From The Known
J. Krishnamurti
Freedom From
The Known
Foreword by David Skitt
Edited by Mary Lutyens
London: Rider, 2010
Originally published in 1969
Quotes Taken By
Peter Fritz Walter
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FREEDOM FROM THE KNOWN
We are second-hand-people. /2
That is the first thing to learn – not to seek. When
you seek you are really only window-shopping. /4
If you try to study yourself according to another
you will always remain a secondhand human being. /
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Understanding is not an intellectual process. /17
But if you are learning all the time, learning every
minute, learning by watching and listening, learning
by seeing and doing, then you will find that learning
is a constant movement without the past. /17
A confident man is a dead human being. /19
Attention is not the same thing as concentration.
(…) Such awareness is like living with a snake in the
room; you watch its every movement, you are very,
very sensitive to the slightest sound it makes. Such a
state of attention is total energy; in such awareness
the totality of yourself is revealed in an instant. /
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To understand pleasure is not to deny it. /31
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