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“the question is not how to get rid of fear, but how to awaken the intelligence with which to face and to understand and go beyond fear.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“When the mother and father love their children, they do not compare them, they do not compare their child with another child; it is their child and they love their child. But you want to compare yourself with something better, with something nobler, with something richer, so you create in yourself a lack of love.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Love and Loneliness: A Compelling Investigation of Intimate Relationships, Isolation, and Self-Knowledge

“Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as “purity of heart” or as the process of becoming “poor in spirit.”
― Albert Nolan, Jesus Today: A Spirituality of Radical Freedom

“an idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning