Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.…

Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. ✨ Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)
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