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Freedom from something is not freedom.

Freedom from something is not freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.291, Penguin Books India

You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Moving, Mind, Trying
Jiddu Krishnamurti's second public talk in Varanasi, November 22, 1964.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Organization, Proportion, Importance
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That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Mind, Creation

But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Healing, Clouds, Orange

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Leadership, Spiritual, Confused
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.126, Penguin Books India

Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Evil, Harmony, Courses
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We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Long, Anxiety, Despair
"Talks in Europe 1968". Jiddu Krishnamurti's 5th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (May 22, 1968) as quoted in "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume 15 (1964-1965): The Dignity of Living", book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1992.

To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heart, Mean, Giving
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1983). “The Flame of Attention”, p.28, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Gone, Harmony, Stage
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After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self Esteem, Ego, Desire

The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is love personal or impersonal, is intelligence yours, mine or somebody else? If it is yours or mine then it is not intelligence, or love, or goodness. If goodness is an affair of the individual or of the collective, according to one's particular preference or decision, then it is no longer goodness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Decision, Matter
"The Urgency of Change". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1970.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Growth, Contentment, Decay
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Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Art, Skills, Action
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “On Right Livelihood”, HarperCollins

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Perception, Brain
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1994). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.141, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowing, Causes, Helping
First Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 14, 1968.

If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Believe, People, Passionate
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Hurt, War
Jiddu Krishnamurti's first public talk in Saanen, Switzerland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. July 14, 1974.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Thinking, Giving
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If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sex, Emotion, Problem
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In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Energy, Nothingness

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Children

The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Struggle, Way

Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Memories, Self, Two

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Joy, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.490, Rajpal & Sons

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