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Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Belief, Conditions
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.102, M-y books ltd

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heart, World, Fixing

The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Trying, Timeless, Ends

Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sad, Hurt, Passion

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Inspirational, Flames, Action

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Perception Of Beauty, Delight, Pleasure

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Learning, Humility, Essence
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, p.98, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Discovery, Mind, Desire
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.181, M-y books ltd

Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Energy, Patterns
"Freedom From The Known". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love You, Want, Inquiring
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sick, Judging, Driven

To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Way, Seeking

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Past
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “On Freedom”, HarperOne

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Suffering, Cogs, Machines
"The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness, Freedom, Meditation
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self, Deception, Desire
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.234, Rajpal & Sons

That is the first thing to learn - not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Lying, Book, Ignorance
"Freedom From The Known". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Revolution, Tomorrow, Transformation
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.38, Rajpal & Sons

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

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

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Inspirational, Philosophical, Trying
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Being Yourself, Teacher, Perception
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Talks with American Students”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

Be a light unto oneself

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Light, Oneself
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Commentaries On Living: Third Series”, p.208, Krishnamurti Foundation America

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Flower, Eye
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Healing, Ambition, Voice

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