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Jiddu Krishnamurti

12 May 1895-17 February 1986

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Attention is contrasted with concentration, which is the vein attempt to bring all one's ever-wandering energy to focus on a certain point. Attention boasts no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all one's energy, the energy of the brain, one's heart, everything, to attending.

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Attention is different from concentration in that while concentration means trying to bring all your energy to focus on a certain point, complete attention means giving all your energy to attending.

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Certainty is the beginning of bondage. It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

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Concentration is different from attention in that while concentration means trying to bring all your energy to focus on a certain point, complete attention means giving all your energy to attending.

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Concentration is the vein attempt to bring all one's ever-wandering energy to focus on a certain point. Attention, by contrast has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all one's energy, the energy of the brain, one's heart, everything, to attending.

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Fear is that which we ought to learn about rather than to learn how to escape from it.

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Fear is to be learned about; we are not simply to learn how to escape from it.

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Hate is easy (in contrast to love). It brings people together after a fashion... it creates all kinds of fantasies, it brings about various types of co-operation, as in war.

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Ideology is always idiotic in that it represents conceptual thinking and is thus part and parcel of a conceptual word which has so unfortunately divided man.

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Ideology is idiotic because it is conceptual thinking, conceptual thinking has so unfortunately divided man.