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"You think when you dont want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, dont think!"
U. G. KrishnamurtiU. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
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Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti was an Indian "anti-guru" who questioned the search for enlightenment. Having pursued a religious path in his youth and eventually rejecting it, U.G. clarified that he had experienced a devastating biological transformation on his 49th birthday, an event he referred to as "the calamity". He emphasized that this transformation back to "the natural state" is a rare, acau
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"It [thought] is a mechanical thing and can solve only mechanical problems. But you want to use it to understand something living; that is the problem. It is not intended for that. Human problems are something living. You cannot use thinking to solve those problems."
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"Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception."
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"It is the body that is immortal. It is living from moment to moment. As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture."
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"There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your "logically" ascertained premise, which you call "truth"."
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"A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk."
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