You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not … - Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

Being Yourself, Follower, Perception, Somebody, Teacher, Told

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Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

Belonging, Eye, Human, Laughter, Morning, Solitude

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

Caught, Life, Love, Mountain, People, Truth

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

Change, Conditions, Feelings, Life Changing, Mean, Thoughts

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Hope, People, Society, Systems, There Is Hope

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Answer, Come, Life, Love, Separate, Truth