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The very word sorrow colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pain, Sorrow, Facts

Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of what is religion and not merely accept the established religions, churches, and rituals.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teaching, Mind, Inquiring
"The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".

Does life continue beyond the door? The fulfilment of life is not annihilation - on the contrary - I am much more ambitious, much more desirous, much more eager than you are. It is Life. Therefore it cannot be annihilation, for you cannot annihilate Life!

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Doors, Ambitious, Doe
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Authority, Intrinsic Value, Painter
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heart, Meditation, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.47, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education, Parenting, Causes
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.9, New World Library

I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases to exist. It is then a question of a different attitude.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Attitude, Goal, Different
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.40, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Communication, Levels, Intensity
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, World, Transformation
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.72, Rajpal & Sons

The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Running, Heart, Order
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pain, Pride, Pleasure
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Choiceless Awareness”, p.140, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Book, Ignorance
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2012). “Social Responsibility”, p.12, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Flower, Color, Sky

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Awakening, Mastery
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

Of course it is better to emphasize the unity of human beings rather than to emphasize the diversity of forms, that is to say, the man and the woman separately. If you have separate organizations for men and women you will tend to set them apart from each other, which is what often happens at present and is absurd!

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Organization, Diversity
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Inspirational, Life, Real
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Tree, Vision, Different
"The Pocket Krishnamurti".

Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Mind, Inquiry
"Talks by Krishnamurti in India 1955-1956 (Verbatim Report) Banaras, Madras, Madanapalle, Bombay". Jiddu Krishnamurti's third public talk at Rajghat, www.jkrishnamurti.com. December 25, 1955.

Truth is a pathless land.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hero, Land, Heroic
Speech in Holland, 3 Aug. 1929, in Lilly Heber Krishnamurti (1931) ch. 2

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Dance, Spiritual, Littles
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Reality, Discipline

So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. If you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? Remain unconscious.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action”, Editorial Kier

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

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

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Time, Yesterday, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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