Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Spiritual Leader and Philosopher, India

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer known for his work on psychological revolution, the nature of the mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and societal change.

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, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.