Top 100 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
#1. Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
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#2. The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
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#3. The military spirit makes you obedient, it makes you physically very disciplined; but inwardly your mind is gradually destroyed because you are imitating, following, copying. You become a mere tool of the older people, of the politician, an instrument of propaganda.
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#4. But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there's a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact.
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#5. But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.
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#6. But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more!
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#7. Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
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#8. Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
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#9. Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.
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#11. We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution.
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#13. The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.
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#14. To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the doing.
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#16. The reality of truth 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 thought, in the fullness of love.
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#17. A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
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#18. In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.
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#19. As long as you are held
within a pattern
you must create disorder
in the world.
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#20. In a deep river there is richness and many fish can live; but the shallow pool is soon dried up by the strong sun, and nothing remains except mud and dirt. For most of us, love is an extraordinarily difficult thing to understand because our lives are very shallow.
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#21. Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
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#22. Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
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#23. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.
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#25. You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
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#26. In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
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#27. I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
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#28. Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
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#29. What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ... Attention has no centre.
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#30. Organized religion is the frozen thought of man, out of which he builds temples and churches; it has become a solace for the fearful, an opiate for those who are in sorrow. But God or truth is far beyond thought and emotional demands.
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#31. In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves ... The actual relationship between two human beings or between many human beings completely ends when there is the formation of images.
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#33. The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
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#34. You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.
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#35. The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
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#36. One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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#37. Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars.
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#38. Solitude helps the mind to see itself clearly as in a mirror, and to free itself from the vain endeavor of ambition with all its complexities, fears, and frustrations, which are the outcome of self-centered activity.
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#39. Following of authority in any form, whether self-imposed or established from outside, as well as any form of imitation, copying, is destructive of incentive, of creativeness, and that it blocks the discovery of what is true.
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#40. Action has meaning only in relationship, and 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.
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#41. Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.
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#42. He who has forgotten his childhood and lost sympathy with the children is not a man who can teach them or help them.
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#43. If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
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#44. The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
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#45. Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.
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#46. But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.
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#47. When experience becomes a remembrance, that remembrance destroys creative understanding.
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#48. One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?
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#53. The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
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#54. The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.
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#55. When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
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#58. 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 ...
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#59. Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.
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#60. Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
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#61. Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
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#63. It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
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#64. Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.
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#65. 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.
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#66. The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
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#67. The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
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#68. Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?
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#70. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.
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#71. When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
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#72. The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.
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#73. Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.
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#74. If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.
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#75. To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.
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#76. In understanding what beauty is, we shall know love, for the understanding of beauty is the peace of the heart.
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#77. And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.
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#78. It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.
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#79. We are human beings, not Asiatics and Americans, Russians and Germans, communists and capitalists. We all have the same human problems.
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#80. There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all
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#81. Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind
is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is
no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward
poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all
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#82. A problem exists only when the mind desires to get somewhere, to achieve, to become something.
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#83. Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.
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#84. Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.
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#85. Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.
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#86. If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
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#87. It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.
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#89. Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
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#90. We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
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#91. We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.
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#92. 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.
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#96. Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.
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#97. Through a narrow window we can see only part of the sky, and not the whole vastness, the magnificence of it.
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#98. You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?
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#99. Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
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#100. Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.
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