"One can go on endlessly reading, discussing, piling up words upon words, without ever doing anything about it. It is like a man that is always ploughing, never sowing, and therefore never reaping. Most of us are in that position. And words, ideas, theories, have become much more important than actual living, which is acting, doing. I do not know if you have ever wondered why, throughout the world, ideas, formulas, concepts, have tremendous significance, not only scientifically but also theologically."
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Jiddu Krishnamurti, in The Awakening of Intelligence (1973), Part V, Ch. 3 : 3rd Public Talk Madras 14th January 1968 "The Sacred"
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