Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Effort
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It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.
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When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.
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Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
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Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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