Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes - page 3

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will? View quote
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Can thought be silent? View quote
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If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. View quote
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To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward. View quote
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know. View quote
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There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this. View quote
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One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears. View quote
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The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing. View quote
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Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all. View quote
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Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. View quote
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Waiting the word of the Master, Watching the Hidden Light; Listening to his orders In the very midst of the fight;Seeing His slightest signal Across the heads of the throng; Hearing His faintest whisper Above earth's loudest song. View quote
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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. View quote
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself. View quote
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. View quote
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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. View quote
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Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. View quote
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Thought itself must deny itself. View quote
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He who is on the Path exists not for himself, but for others; he has forgotten himself, in order that he may serve them. View quote
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Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all thought, for thought and feeling dissipate energy. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart. View quote
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The understanding of relationship, fear, pleasure and sorrow is to bring order in our house. Without order you cannot possibly meditate. View quote
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A mind that is in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator. View quote
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What does it mean to be compassionate? Not merely verbally, but actually to be compassionate? View quote
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