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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. KrishnamurtiIt [thought] is a mechanical thing and can solve only mechanical probl — U. G. Krishnamurti
"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."
U. 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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