Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes about Silence

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Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery.

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Book, Reading, Silence

"Talks by Krishnamurti in Europe 1962 (Verbatim Report) London, Saanen". Jiddu Krishnamurti's seventh public talk in London, jkrishnamurti.org. June 19, 1962.

So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self, Silence, Meditation

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Beauty, Moving, Silence

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Silence

Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.91, M-y books ltd

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ideas, Silence, Listening

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

Meditation is the action of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Silence, Meditation, Acting

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.54, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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