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space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.
space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.
Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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- Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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