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The Conflicted

The Conflicted

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jul 15, 2023
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The understanding of oneself is the beginning of wisdom. To understand oneself is to understand one’s relationship with things, people, and ideas.

— Krishnamurti

It is only man that brings disorder to the universe.

He’s ruthless and extremely violent. Wherever he is he brings misery and confusion in himself and in the world about him. He lays waste and destroys, and he has no compassion. In himself there is no order, and so what he touches becomes soiled and chaotic.

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