Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
J. Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was an Indian spiritual and philosophical teacher, speaker, and author. He followed no particular religion, philosophy, ideology, or spiritual tradition, but explored human consciousness, thought processes, belief systems, and quest for individual and collective freedom. His statement “truth is a pathless land” summarizes the heart of his teachings.
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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We are what we believe we are!
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.
