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One can go on endlessly reading, discussing, piling up words upon words, without ever doing anything about it. It is like a man that is always ploughing, never sowing, and therefore never reaping. Most of us are in that position.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti The Awakening of Intelligence (1973)

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The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living.

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Letters to the Schools (1981)

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" — there is only observation taking place.

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