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"Every thought and feeling must flower for them to live and die. Flowering of everything
in you, the ambition, the greed, the hate, the joy, the passion - there is their death and
freedom. It is only in freedom that anything can flourish, not in suppression,
in control and discipline, these only pervert, corrupt. Flowering and freedom is goodness and all virtue".
Krishnamurti's Notebook |
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"A prisoner wants freedom, which means first he is caught in a prison, then he
wants freedom to leave that prison. That is only reaction. That
reaction is not freedom. Freedom
implies the total ending of all illusions, of all beliefs, of all your
accumulated wants, desires. A religious mind is sane, healthy."
Unkown source |
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"There must be absloute freedom from orthodox or traditional
movements; but rather there must be total freedom, absolute freedom
from all sense of nationalities, racial prejudices, religious beliefs
and faiths. If one is not capable of doing this with honesty and
integrity, he had better keep away from this place. Essentially one
has the insight to see that knowledge is the enemy of man. This is
not a place for romanticists, sentamentalists, or for emotion. This
requires a good brain, which does not mean a brain that is
intellectual, but rather a brain that is objective, fundamentally
honest to itself and has integrity in word and deed."
Unknown source |
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"Freedom is not a reaction: freedom is not choice. It is man's pretence
that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without
direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive;
freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of
his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom.
Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and
activity."
The Core of The Teachings, 1980 |
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"Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created
for itself through craving its own security."
Education and the Significance of Life, p.83 |
