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Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of

Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Eye, Meditation

Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Reality, Self
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.50, Rajpal & Sons

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Suffering, Affair, Made

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Understanding, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1955-1956 : The answer is in the problem”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Encouragement, Pain

I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Success, Faces, Tenacity

To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
"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.

Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Beauty, Love Is, Men

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Running, Fear, Ideas

You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Order, Giving, Watches
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.30, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Doe, Analysis, Consciousness

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Battle, Looks, Caught

And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Destiny, Self, Cells

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
May, Ends, Particular
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.267, Penguin Books India

The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Advancement, Way
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Two, Violence, Conflict
Jiddu Krishnamurti's 5th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 30, 1967.

As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I am called -'Enlightened One', 'Son of God', or something else. To me, it has no purpose - as little as when the Buddha said, 'I am the Enlightened One'.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Son, Matter, Doe
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Discipline, Mind, Coercion
Seventh Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland, August 10, 1971.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Seeing
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1970). “The only revolution”, Not Avail

Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Worship You, Enlightenment
"Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Energy, Waste

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Reality, Generosity
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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