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You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mind, Looks, Quiet
Jiddu Krishnamurti's second public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 12, 1968.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Dull, Psychological, Made
Ramesh Grover, Jiddu Krishnamurti, David Bohm (2006). “Kalachakra Meditations: Based on the Discussions Between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm in the Ending of Time”

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Children

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Lying, Men, Choices
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2000). “To Be Human”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Meditation, Attention

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Attachment, Feelings, Flow
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Long, Different

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hurt, Wall, Past
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1984). “The Flame of Attention”, Harper San Francisco

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self, Cover Ups, Denial
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.15, Open Court Publishing

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Loneliness, Struggle, Evil
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.170, M-y books ltd

If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wisdom, Fun, Book
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1965). “Talks by Krishnsmurti in India, 1965: Madras, Bombay, New Delhi [and] Varanasi: authentic report”

As the river enters the sea and loses itself in the sea, so Krishnamurti has entered into that Life which is represented by some as The Christ, by others as The Buddha, by others still, as the Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti as an entity fully developed has entered into the Sea of Life and is the Teacher, because the moment you enter into that Life -which is the fulfilment of all Teachers, which is life of all the Teachers - the individual as such ceases.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, Sea, Rivers
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If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Flower, Cutting, Perfect
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Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Purpose, Path
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Heredity And Environment, Savages
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When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Study, Our Relationship, Disorder

It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Artist, People, Creative
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Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Effort, Meditation, Ego

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Envy, Overcoming, Noble
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, Penguin Books India

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.13, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Exercise, Order, Desire
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The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Learning, Creativity, Simple

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Causes, Achieve
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ideas, Illusion, Deceiving

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