Kinfonet Quote of the Day: Division exists only when there is the search for a goal, when there is adjustment and the complacency of certainty.

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Krishnamurti Quote of the Day

O | 11th Public Talk 30th June, 1934

[The] creative movement of thought never seeks a result or comes to a culmination, because result or culmination is always the outcome of alternate cessation and movement, whereas if there is no search for a result, but only continual movement of thought, then that is creative thinking. Again, creative thinking is free of division which creates conflict between thought, emotion and action. And division exists only when there is the search for a goal, when there is adjustment and the complacency of certainty.

Tags: adjustment, certainty, division

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