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I don’t know you actually now
When one says ‘I know you,’ one means, ‘I know you as you were yesterday; I don’t know you actually now.’
—KRISHNAMURTI
Krishnamurti in Saanen, Switzerland 1967, Talk 6
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I exist only in relationship
It is no use sitting in a corner meditating about myself. I cannot exist by myself. I exist only in relationship to people, things and ideas.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book Freedom from the Known
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A relationship with no friction
Is it possible to have a relationship with another in which there is no friction whatsoever? It is possible only when I understand what love is.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Images have relationship, not ourselves
In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book Freedom from the Known
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What we call relationship
Jealousy, distrust, feeling lonely deeply inside but trying to escape from it, that is my life, and that is what we call relationship, and that is what we call love.
—KRISHNAMURTI
Krishnamurti at Brockwood Park 1983, Q&A Meeting 1
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So one asks a much deeper question: is love desire? Is love pleasure? You have to answer, not I. It is your life not my life. And can each of us see this fact, what possession, domination, power, does to each of us? Will he or she listen to each other, the basis of it, being afraid to lose? Afraid of losing one’s security in relationship. And when that security is shaken I am jealous. Will my wife listen to me? And I say to her, ‘I love you but I don’t possess you’ – could you say that? ‘I am free of you and you are free of me.’ Which doesn’t mean free love and going off, you know, changing every year a new man or a new woman, but seeing the whole problem, not just jealousy, how to get rid of jealousy, or distrust, but seeing the whole problem of relationship, which is very complex, which demands subtlety, sensitivity.

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