Authors:

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes - Page 23

All Quotes Ambition Anxiety Art Atheism Atheist Attitude Authority Awakening Awareness Beauty Being Yourself Belief Change Children Choices Christ Clarity Communication Compassion Concentration Conflict Conformity Confusion Consciousness Country Creation Creativity Culture Desire Discipline Dogma Dying Earth Education Effort Ego Energy Environment Evil Exercise Fear Feelings Freedom Generosity Giving Growth Guru Harmony Hate Heart Humanity Hurt Husband Ignorance Imagination Imitation Inspirational Journey Joy Knowledge Laughter Learning Life Listening Loneliness Love Lying Mankind Meditation Memories Mountain Observation Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Personality Philosophy Pleasure Purpose Quality Reality Religion Responsibility Revolution Running School Self Esteem Silence Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Spirituality Struggle Students Study Suffering Teaching Time Tradition Transformation Truth Understanding Values Violence Wall War Water Wisdom Writing Yoga
My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to

My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Would Be, Useless
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Memories, Thinking, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1967). “Life Ahead”

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religious, Mind, Revolution

Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Struggle, Men, Order
"Letters to the Schools, Volume I". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, p. 12, 1981.

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Silence, Difficult, Silence Is
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1962-1963): A Psychological Revolution”, p.211, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Country, Party, Men
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Free Spirit, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1967). “Life Ahead”

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Desire, Great Men, Certain
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
People, Personality, Temples
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Passion, Yesterday, Mind

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self, Daily Life, Concern
Fourth Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland, July 25, 1971.

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Understanding, Levels, Action
"The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Silence, Brain, Movement

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Watches, Minutes
Fourth Public Talk, Bombay, (Mumbai), India, February 17, 1971.

Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Past, Reality, Mind

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mind, Knows
Second Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland, July 20, 1971.

You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and cruelties, and then you will find out what is true. Why do you want philosophies?

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

Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love Is, Self, Long

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Son, Goal, Trying
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Water, Meditation
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.5, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Creativity, Creative, Asking

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Lying, Awakening
"Striking Thoughts". Book by Bruce Lee, p. 9, 2000.

What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, Confusion, Personality
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Attachment, Becoming, Virtue

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

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

You May Also Like: