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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 ideas.
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| Relationship is the mirror in which you can see yourself as you are. You cannot see yourself as you are in this mirror, if you approach it with a conclusion and an explanation, or with condemnation, or with justification. |
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| Relationship is our problem, and not the idea about relationship not at any one particular level but at all the levels of our existence. This is the only problem we have. To understand relationship, we must come to it with freedom from all ideology, from all prejudice, not merely from the prejudice of the un-educated but also from the prejudice of knowledge. |
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| Relationship implies existence; and as nothing can live in isolation, to be is to be related. Our conflict is in relationship, at all the levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has. |
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| Religion then is not belief, nor dogma, but the understanding of truth that is to be discovered in relationship, from moment to moment. Religion that is belief and dogma is only an escape from the reality of relationship. The man who seeks God, or what you will, through belief which he calls religion, only creates opposition, bringing about separation which is disintegration. Any form of ideology, whether of the right or of the left, of this particular religion or of that, sets man against man - which is what is happening in the world. |
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| Relationship is the challenge of everyday life. If you and I and another do not know how to meet each other, we are creating conditions that breed war. So, the world problem is your problem. You are not different from the world. The world is you. What you are the world is. You can save the world, which is yourself, only in understanding the relationship of your daily life and not through belief, called religion, of the left or of the right, or through any reform however extensive. |
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What is important is not how to act, what pattern to follow, or which ideology is
the best, but the understanding of your relationship with another. This
understanding is the only revolution, and not the revolution based on idea. Any
revolution based on an ideology maintains man as a means only.
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There is only one fundamental revolution. This revolution is not of idea; it is
not based on any pattern of action. This revolution comes into being when the
need for using another ceases. This transformation is not an abstraction, a thing
to be wished for, but an actuality which can be experienced, as we begin to
understand the way of our relationship. This fundamental revolution may be
called love; it is the only creative factor in bringing about transformation in
ourselves and so in society.
J. Krishnamurti - January 22, 1950
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