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Do it or don't do it but get on with it.

Do it or don't do it but get on with it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Discovery, Self, Solitude

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mind, Problem, Psychological
Jiddu Krishnamurti's first public talk in Ojai, California, April 1, 1980.

Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Being In Love, Loss
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletin 3 and Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletin 4, 1969.

Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Listening, Mind

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Silence
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.91, M-y books ltd

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heart, Personality, Authority
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The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom, Inspire, Guru

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heart, Eye, Doors

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, May, Cents

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Mind, Attention

The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Mind, Firsts

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Relationship, Philosophy
"Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World".

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Giving, Pleasure, Continuity
Third Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India, February 14, 1971.

I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Choices, Doe
Second Question & Answer Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK, September 11, 1971.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Accepted, Natural, Disillusionment

It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Being Yourself, Guy, Energy

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Feelings, Desire, Selfishness
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But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
War, Self Esteem, Office
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ideas, Facts, One Thing
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.364, Rajpal & Sons

Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one Life. Anyone who has not fulfilled that life must step down the Truth, and when he does that, he is unconsciously betraying the Truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Expression, Doe, Different
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Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Long, Tradition

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ideas, Mind, Conflict

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