Krishnamurti & the Art of Awakening

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Bombay, India | 9th Small Group Discussion, 29th January, 1973

...when knowledge interferes in the discovery of the new, there is no discovery of the new. There must be an interval between knowledge and the new, otherwise you are just carrying on the old.

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