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Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Art, Meditation
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.37, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction. We do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the me, love is the conflict of the me and the not-me. This conflict, this torture, is not love. Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love Is, Men, Space

I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Trying, Impossible, Compromise
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You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Color, Play, Piano
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Land, People
Speech in Holland, 3 August 1929, in Lilly Heber 'Krishnamurti' (1931) ch. 2

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge, Knows
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.97, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns himself with the expression of that life. What I want to do is to bring about harmony between the two extremes, for therein lies the Truth. The harmony of life is the understanding of Truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Lying, Men, Two
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You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Talking, Ideas, Misunderstood
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You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Drunk, Wish
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We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Over You, Sorrow
"The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness".

Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Moving, Taken, Learning

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Family, Peace, Where You Live
"Krishnamurti on Education".

The thought is not the thing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Semantics
J. Krishnamurti (2000). “Truth and Actuality”, p.16, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Choices, Understanding

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.105, Penguin Books India

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom, Ends
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Wall, Matter
"Freedom From The Known". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Body, Deals, Ifs
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Thinking, Doe
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge, Truth Is, Crippled

Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Order, Patterns, Conformity
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.182, Shambhala Publications

Meditation is the action of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Silence, Meditation, Acting
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.54, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mirrors, Wish, Different
Jiddu Krishnamurti “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1953-1955 : What are you seeking?”

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Different, Centre, Revolt

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