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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wise, Listening, Seeing

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sunset, Eye, Worry

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Inspirational, Teacher, Real
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.106, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Uplifting, Spiritual, Fear
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.76, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Art, Thinking, Perception

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Clever, Convenience, Cunning

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Change, Life Changing, Mean
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2012). “Social Responsibility”, p.72, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, School, Childhood
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Effort, Mind, Expecting

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, Know Yourself, Masters
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Talks with American Students”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Book, Reading, Silence
"Talks by Krishnamurti in Europe 1962 (Verbatim Report) London, Saanen". Jiddu Krishnamurti's seventh public talk in London, jkrishnamurti.org. June 19, 1962.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom, Inspire, Mind

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.49, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Men, Inquiring
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.104, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Art, Laughter
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.23, Harper Collins

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Understanding, Bases

Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hate, Journey, Gossip

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Humanity, Ifs

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Lying, Understanding, Important
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Art, Mind, Cups
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.100, Rajpal & Sons

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Understanding Knowledge, Addiction, Doe
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.194, M-y books ltd

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reality, Causes, Disorder
"Freedom From The Known". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

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