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Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Activity category:
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Authority category:
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Beauty category:
- Aloneness Is Not Loneliness / The Book of Life...
Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Beginning category:
In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Belief category:
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Belief category:
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Books category:
Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Change category:
If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Children category:
In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love... (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Competition category:
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Concentration category:
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending... (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Concentration category:
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Courage category:
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Creativity category:
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)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Culture category:
Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Desire category:
We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Destiny category:
Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Education category:
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Ego category:
Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Envy category:
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Fame category:
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something, we are no longer free. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Fear category:
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Fear category:
We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Freedom category:
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction ... To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something - and it is only such love that can know freedom. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Humanity category:
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Influence category:
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Innocence category:
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Innocence category:
The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Insecurity category:
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)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Insight category:
Is insight dependent on a material process?
Has insight a cause? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Intuition category:
Intuition is the only true guide in life. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Knowledge category:
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Leadership category:
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Life category:
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Listening category:
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Love category:
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Meditation category:
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Meditation category:
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Movement category:
Learning is movement from moment to moment. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Music category:
You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Observation category:
Observation without evaluation is the highest form of intelligence. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Opportunity category:
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Order category:
It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Philosophy category:
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Problems category:
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Questions category:
Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Reality category:
That Reality is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thoughts, in the fullness of love. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Religion category:
-Aloneness Is Not Loneliness / The Book of Life
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Religion category:
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Searching category:
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Seeing category:
We never see anything completely... We never see a tree, we see the tree 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. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Solitude category:
-Aloneness Is Not Loneliness / The Book of Life
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Solitude category:
There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Thinking category:
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Time category:
Doesn't becoming imply time? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Time category:
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)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Tradition category:
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Truth category:
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Understanding category:
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all? (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Understanding category:
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Jiddu Krishnamurti - From the Unknowns category:
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)
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