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“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
― Krishnamurti

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“You can only be afraid of what you think you know.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“do it or don't do it but get on with it...”
― J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
― J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

“When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu'l-din Rumi

“Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
― Rumi

“The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight.”
― Rumi

“Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi