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Education and the Significance of Life

by Jiddu Krishnamurti · 1955

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The teacher probes the Western problems of conformity and loss of personal values while offering a fresh approach to self-understanding and the meaning of personal freedom and mature love.

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adult
Length
short · 128 pages

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