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The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Ends, Where You Are
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2002). “Meditations”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Understanding, Doe, Want
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Commentaries on Living - first series: A Study Book Of The Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.171, Krishnamurti Foundation America (PublishDrive)

There is no tranquility in ideas.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Ideas, Tranquility

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Practice, Meditation, Important
Third Public Talk, Bangalore, India, January 13, 1973.

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hurt, Memories, Moving
"A Wholly Different Way of Living". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1970.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Mirrors, Self

Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Window, Breeze
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.13, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Real, Outcomes
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.59, New World Library

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Powerful, Believe, Thinking
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1967). “Life Ahead”

The flowering of love is meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Jobs, Profound
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Atheist, War, Men
"Freedom From The Known". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Outcomes, Matter
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, Penguin Books India

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fifth Public Talk Saanen, July 26, 1970.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Dark, Light, World

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life Is, Ends
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.63, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

When you are free, you have no choice.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Choices

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.89, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge, Self, Confusion
"Education and the Significance of Life". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1953.

The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hurt, Pain, Memories

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ideas, Silence, Listening
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pain, Moving, Knowing

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Men, Feelings
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “On Nature and the Environment”, p.1, Harper Collins

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