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How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions.

How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Community, Mind
"Zeitgeist: Addendum" Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Long, Understanding, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.260, Rajpal & Sons

The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life Changing, Thinking, Things In Life

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Discipline, Mind, Patterns
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.76, M-y books ltd

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.402, Rajpal & Sons

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Patterns, Might, Conflict
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.166, M-y books ltd

What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sex, Self, Giving

Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Opportunity, Views, Giving
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Psychological, States
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.37, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mind, Problem, Pleasure
Jiddu Krishnamurti's third public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24, 1967.

Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Two, Our Relationship, Humans

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heart, Love Is, Generosity
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Fear is nonacceptance of what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Names, People
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.498, Rajpal & Sons

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Discipline, Effort
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom, Real, Men
"The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind".

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Ambitious, Found
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.77, New World Library

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Dying, Frightened

Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Space, Meditation, Waiting

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Beautiful, Interesting, Insight
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Facing a World in Crisis: What Life Teaches Us in Challenging Times”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jobs, Stupid, Extraordinary Beauty

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge, Movement, Moments
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.25, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self Esteem, Insane, World
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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