March 2013
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Measuring myself against you denying what I am...
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> If I am all the time measuring myself against you, struggling to be like you, then I am denying what I am myself. Therefore I am creating an illusion. When I have understood that comparison in any form leads only to greater illusion and greater misery, just as when I analyse myself, add to my knowledge of myself...
We live in fragments - JKOnline Daily Quotes
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> We live in fragments
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> We live in fragments. You are one thing at the office, another at home; you talk about democracy and in your heart you are autocratic; you talk about loving your neighbours, yet kill him with competition; there is one part of you working, looking, independently of the other. Are you aware of this fragmentary existence in yourself? And is it...
Simplicity that can look directly at things -...
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> Simplicity that can look directly at things
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> It is one of the most difficult things in the world to look at anything simply. Because our minds are very complex we have lost the quality of simplicity. I don’t mean simplicity in clothes or food, wearing only a loin cloth or breaking a record fasting or any of that immature nonsense the saints cultivate, but the...
I can observe myself only in relationship -...
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> I can observe myself only in relationship
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> Now where do we begin to understand ourselves? Here am I, and how am I to study myself, observe myself, see what is actually taking place inside myself? I can observe myself only in relationship because all life is relationship. It is no use sitting in a corner meditating about myself. I cannot exist by myself. I exist only...
February 2013
9 posts
You have to question everything - JKOnline Daily...
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> You have to question everything
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> I do not demand your faith; I am not setting myself up as an authority. I have nothing to teach you- no new philosophy, no new system, no new path to reality; there is no path to reality any more than to truth. All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders...
To die to everything of yesterday - JKOnline Daily...
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> To die to everything of yesterday
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> To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on...
Not a philosophy of life but to observe - JKOnline...
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> Not a philosophy of life but to observe
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> It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas or theological concepts. It seems to me that all ideologies are utterly idiotic. What is important is not a philosophy of life but to observe what is actually taking place in our daily life,...
We have contributed to it in our daily lives -...
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> We have contributed to it in our daily lives
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> We are each one of us responsible for every war because of the aggressiveness of our own lives, because of our nationalism, our selfishness, our gods, our prejudices, our ideals, all of which divide us. And only when we realize, not intellectually but actually, as actually as we would recognise that we are hungry or in...
Totally responsible - JKOnline Daily Quotes
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> Totally responsible
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> 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 therefore of society. As human beings living in this monstrously ugly world, let us ask ourselves, can this society, based on competition, brutality and fear, come to an end? Not as an...
13 February 2013
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> Greek economy finally under control
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> Today was the official first day of production under democratic workers’ control in the Viomichaniki Metalleutiki (Vio.Me) factory [ht: hk] in Thessaloniki.
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Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self -...
> Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self
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> The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To...
To change society, you must break away from it -...
> To change society, you must break away from it
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> The social pattern is set up by man; it is not independent of man, though it has a life of its own, and man is not independent of it; they are interrelated. Change within the pattern is no change at all; it is mere modification, reformation. Only by breaking away from the social pattern without building another can you...
January 2013
2 posts
Revolution must begin with you and me - JKOnline...
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> Revolution must begin with you and me
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> Revolution must begin with you and me. That revolution, that individual transformation, can take place only when we understand relationship, which is the process of self-knowledge. Without knowing the whole process of my relationship at all the different levels, what I think and what I do has no value at all. What basis have I...
Do not leave it to somebody else - JKOnline Daily...
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> Do not leave it to somebody else
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> To put an end to outward war, you must begin to put an end to war in yourself. Some of you will nod your heads and say, ‘I agree,’ and go outside and do exactly the same as you have been doing for the last ten or twenty years. Your agreement is merely verbal and has no significance, for the world’s miseries and wars...
December 2012
7 posts
As you are riding in the bus - JKOnline Daily...
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> As you are riding in the bus
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> Real meditation is the highest form of intelligence. It is not a matter of sitting cross-legged in a corner with your eyes shut or standing on your head or whatever it is you do. To meditate is to be completely aware as you are walking, as you are riding in the bus, as you are working in your office or in your kitchen—completely aware of...
You worship success - JKOnline Daily Quotes
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> You worship success
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> We all want to become something: a pacifist, a war hero, a millionaire, a virtuous man, or what you will. The very desire to become involves conflict, and that conflict produces war. There is peace only when there is no desire to become something, and that is the only true state because in that state alone there is creation, there is reality. But...
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Fwd: Belief is not reality - JKOnline Daily Quotes →
Belief is not reality
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Belief is not reality. You may believe in God, but your belief has no more
reality than that of the man who does not believe in God. Your belief is
the result of your background, of your religion, of your fears, and the
nonbelief of the communist and others is equally the result of their
conditioning. To find out what is true, the mind must be free from belief...
Only the individual can change, not the mass -...
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> Only the individual can change, not the mass
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> I am talking to the individual because only the individual can change, not the mass; only you can transform yourself, and so the individual matters infinitely. I know it is the fashion to talk about groups, the mass, the race, as though the individual had no importance at all, but in any creative action it is the...
How to look at your fear - JKOnline Daily Quotes
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> How to look at your fear
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> Do please listen to this, it is not complicated. It demands attention, and attention has its own discipline; you don’t have to introduce a system of discipline. You know, sirs, what this world needs is not politicians or more engineers, but free human beings. Engineers and scientists may be necessary, but it seems to me that what the...
Are you anything in yourself? - JKOnline Daily...
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> Are you anything in yourself?
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> Questioner: If I have no image of myself, then I am nothing. Krishnamurti: But are you anything anyhow? [Laughter] Please don’t laugh, this is much too serious. Are you anything in yourself? Strip yourself of your name, title, money, position, your little capacity to write a book and be flattered and what are you? So why not...
The moment there is accumulation - JKOnline Daily...
> The moment there is accumulation
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> To understand conflict, we must understand relationship, and the understanding of relationship does not depend on memory, on habit, on what has been or what should be. It depends on choiceless awareness from moment to moment, and if we go into it deeply, we shall see that in that awareness there is no accumulative process at all. The moment...
November 2012
17 posts
At all the levels of our existence - JKOnline...
At all the levels of our existence
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Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, nor is it the outcome
of a long painful practice and discipline, but it is awareness, from moment
to moment, of every thought and feeling as it arises in relationship.
Relationship is not on an abstract, ideological level but an actuality,the
relationship with property, with people, and with...
Caught in the net of time - JKOnline Daily Quotes
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> Caught in the net of time
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> As long as you are looking for transformation, a result to be gained, there will be no transformation. As long as you are thinking in terms of achievement, in terms of time, there can be no transformation, for then the mind is caught in the net of time. When you say you are thinking in terms of immediate transformation, you are thinking of...
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Self-organization in Communicating Groups - the... →
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Walmart workers strike →
Ideals help us to postpone - JKOnline Daily Quotes
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> Ideals help us to postpone
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> To understand something, I must give it full attention, and an ideal is merely a distraction which prevents my giving that feeling or that quality full attention at a given time. If I am fully aware, if I give my full attention to the quality I call greed without the distraction of an ideal, then am I not in a position to understand greed...
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Petition | Celina High School: Allow our student... →
The denial of thought does not bring about love -...
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> The denial of thought does not bring about love
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> We have to understand thought itself, and not try to capture love by thought. The denial of thought does not bring about love. There is freedom from thought only when its deep significance is fully understood; and, for this, profound self-knowledge is essential, not vain and superficial assertions. Meditation and not...
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Emergent Culture – Anthropologist Dr. David... →
Neither the moral nor the immoral know love -...
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> Neither the moral nor the immoral know love
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> The process of thought ever denies love. It is thought that has emotional complications, not love. Thought is the greatest hindrance to love. Thought creates a division between what is and what should be, and on this division morality is based; but neither the moral nor the immoral know love. This moral structure, created...
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Petraeus Resignation: Sex, Lies and Politics →
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Who Really Won the November 2012 Election? By Jack... →
Truth is not something far away - JKOnline Daily...
> Truth is not something far away
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> We do not have to seek truth. Truth is not something far away. It is the truth of the mind, truth of its activities from moment to moment. If we are aware of this moment-to-moment truth, of this whole process of time, this awareness releases consciousness or that energy to be. As long as the mind uses consciousness as the self-activity, time...
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On Bowles, likely new treasury secretary, and the... →
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"The federal budget deficit is too small": On the... →
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http://anticap.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/capitalism-...
America is a country of total capitalism. Its functionaries have no need of public hospitals or of a reliable power supply to private homes. The elite have their own infrastructure. Total capitalism, however, has left American society in ruins and crippled the government. America’s fate is not just an accident produced by the system. It is a consequence of that system.
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25 Reasons not to Vote for Obama →
Every reaction becomes a means of discovery -...
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> Every reaction becomes a means of discovery
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> As one becomes aware at the conscious level, one also begins to discover the envy, the struggles, the desires, the motives, the anxieties that lie at the deeper levels of consciousness. When the mind is intent on discovering the whole process of itself, then every incident, every reaction becomes a means of discovery, of...
October 2012
2 posts
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Tea and Roses: Journeys of the Heart, by Jaalah... →
Check out Jaalah DuPont’s new book of poetry…Posted with Blogsy
Effort is non-awareness - JKOnline Daily Quotes
> Effort is non-awareness
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> Does not effort mean a struggle to change what is into what it is not, or what it should be, or what it should become? We are constantly escaping from what is to transform or modify it. Only when there is no awareness of exactly what is, then effort to transform takes place. So effort is non-awareness. Awareness reveals the significance of what is,...
September 2012
32 posts
“Democratic Womanism”: Poet and Activist Alice...
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/28/democratic_womanism_poet_and_activist_alice
Fwd: The what is, is what you are - JKOnline Daily...
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> The what is, is what you are
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> The what is is what you are, not what you would like to be; it is not the ideal because the ideal is fictitious, but it is actually what you are doing, thinking, and feeling from moment to moment. What is is the actual, and to understand the actual requires awareness, a very alert, swift mind.
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Watch(via Chris Hedges interview - News - CBC Player)
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Interview with Robert Glück | EOAGH →
Nods to Margery Kempe and Jack Spicer in something like the same breath. Yet another writer I have not had enough time to catch up with…
If you are aware of outward things - JKOnline...
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> Please do listen to this. Most of us think that awareness is a mysterious something to be practised, and that we should get together day after day to talk about awareness. Now, you don’t come to awareness that way at all. But if you are aware of outward things -the curve of a road, the shape of a tree, the colour of...
Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy » One week... →
Being aware - JKOnline Daily Quotes
Being aware
Questioner: I find it impossible to be aware all the time.
Krishnamurti: Don’t be aware all the time! Just be aware in little bits.
Please, there is no being aware all the time, that is a dreadful idea!It is
a nightmare, this terrible desire for continuity. Just be aware for one
minute, for one second, and in that one second of awareness you can see the
whole universe....
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“The call to abandon their illusions about their condition is a call to abandon a...”
– - Karl Marx
faculty.washington.edu/cbehler/glossary/Marxquote.html
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#S17 – Occupy Wall Street - Invites you, the 99%,... →
[and you thought OWS was going away…]
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis: Deal... →
[Kudos to you, Chi-town teachers! Brilliant, brilliant folks doing what they can! Power to the people, not to the moneyed elite!]
