A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with …

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind. ✨ Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). The first and last freedom, p.100, Rajpal & Sons
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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind. ✨ Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). The first and last freedom, p.100, Rajpal & Sons

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