K on generation gap

http://www.journal.kfionline.org/issue-15/the-art-of-parenting

https://www.dailygood.org/story/1825/what-future-does-man-have-david-bohm-and-j-krishnamurti/

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

http://www.ibe.unesco.org/sites/default/files/krishnamurtie.pdf

Chapter 66 - Without responsibility there is no freedom

From "The Whole Movement of Life is Learning"

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A confident man is a dead human being

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