Tag:  Tolerance

• Tolerance is a civilized acceptance of the division between people. October 01, 2009

  Tolerance is a civilized acceptance of the division between people.

• With the cessation of distinction, there will be no talk of tolerance. Then you will not talk of brotherhood, for then in your hearts you are brothers. May 11, 2010

  You have your beliefs, and another has his; you hold to your particular form of religion and another to his; you are a Christian, another is a Mohommedan, and yet another a Hindu. You have these re...

• When there is real affection, freed from personal attachment, then this much abused word "brotherhood" disappears. December 09, 2010

  To approach and try to understand truth through the division of "mine" and "yours" is utterly futile. The idea of tolerance becomes an intellectual invention which covers up up the conflict arising...

• Because you play with life, you think there are innumerable facets to truth and glorify tolerance. January 06, 2011

  Question: One can grasp a problem or a situation in life, its cause and effect, clearly enough by the exercise of the intellect and equally so emotionally. But how does one do this mentally and emo...

• We can talk about tolerance, which is an intellectual invention to keep you where you are and to keep me where I am, and try to be friendly. June 05, 2011

  Question: Do you believe in Communism, as understood by the masses? Krishnamurti: I don't know what is understood by the masses, so I cannot explain that. So what is it, now? Let us look at it,...

• To me, truth has no aspects; it is one, and that which is complete, whole, has no aspects. June 07, 2011

  To me, truth has no aspects. We are in the habit, especially Theosophists I think, and some others besides, of saying that truth has many aspects: Christianity is one aspect, Buddhism another, Hind...

• Agreement does not mean thoughtless acceptance or tolerance, for tolerance is superficial. June 21, 2012

  To have united thought, and so action, there must be agreement, accord, and to have agreement seems to be very difficult. Agreement does not mean thoughtless acceptance or tolerance, for tolerance ...

• The cultivation of virtue is not intelligence. September 25, 2012

  Question: How can one come to an agreement with people who have objectives in life radically different from one's own? Krishnamurti: There cannot be agreement between a false objective and a tru...

• What you call thinking is merely moving from one anchorage or centre of bias to another, and from this centre judging, choosing, and creating substitutions. November 01, 2012

  What is the process by which the mind is ever accumulating values, memories, habits, which we call tradition? We cannot discern this process so long as mind is conditioned by fear and want which ar...