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Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“There are many for whom the Qualification of Desirelessness is a difficult one, for they feel that they are their desires — that if their distinctive desires, their likings and dislikings, are taken away from them, there will be no self left. But these are only they who have not seen the Master; in the light of His holy Presence all desire dies, but the desire to be like Him.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Waiting the word of the Master, Watching the Hidden Light; Listening to his orders In the very midst of the fight;Seeing His slightest signal Across the heads of the throng; Hearing His faintest whisper Above earth's loudest song.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind, please understand this. I would make use of an organization which would take me to London, for example; this is quite a different kind of organization, merely mechanical, like the post or the telegraph. I would use a motor car or a steamship to travel, these are only physical mechanisms which have nothing whatever to do with spirituality. Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And as we are — the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are. To bring about order and peace, we must begin with ourselves and not with society, not with the State, for the world is ourselves … If we would bring about a sane and happy society we must begin with ourselves and not with another, not outside of ourselves, but with ourselves.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Second Public Talk at Ojai (21 May 1944) J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 440521, published in Authentic Report of Ten Talks, Ojai, 1944 (1945), p. 7, OCLC 67727800
“So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New Delhi India 1st Public Talk (14 November 1948)
“Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Despair exists only when there is hope.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 11th Public Talk, London, UK (25 May 1961)
“Is there a thinker apart from thought?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 12th Public Talk, London, UK (28 May 1961)
“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 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 (1895–1986) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sixth talk in London (17 June 1962), published in The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti : Vol. XIII, 1962-1963: A Psychological Revolution (1992)
“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 (1895–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3rd Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (24 May 1967)
“When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (28 May 1967)
“Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 5th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (30 May 1967)
“You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2nd Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (12 May 1968)
“Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1st Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (14 May 1968)
“To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (19 May 1968)
“In the denial of disorder there is order.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (19 May 1968)
“Can you look at a flower without thinking?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4th Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23 May 1968)
“There are the states of inattention and of attention. When you are completely giving your mind, your heart, your nerves, everything you have, to attend, then the old habits, the mechanical responses, do not enter into it, thought does not come into it at all. But we cannot maintain that all the time, so we are mostly in a state of inattention, a state in there is not an alert choiceless awareness. What takes place? There is inattention and rare attention and we are trying to bridge the one to the other. How can my inattention become attention or, can attention be complete, all the time?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talks and Dialogues Saanen 1968 : 1st Public Talk (7 July 1968)
“Only the free mind knows what Love is.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the University of California, Berkley, as broadcast by Pacifica Radio (4 January 1969)
“The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1st Public Talk, Berkeley, California (3 February 1969)
“Where there is fear there is aggression.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1st Public Talk, Berkeley, California (3 February 1969)
“Can thought be silent?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2nd Public Talk, Berkeley, California (4 February 1969)
“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3rd Public Talk, Berkeley, California (5 February 1969)
“Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life — perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. It has no technique and therefore no authority. When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy — if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter. Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is … Matter and energy are interrelated. The one cannot exist without the other, and the more harmony there is between the two, the more balance, the more active the brain cells are. Thought has set up this pattern of pleasure, pain, fear, and has been functioning inside it for thousands of years and cannot break the pattern because it has created it.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be. We look to someone to tell us what is right or wrong behaviour, what is right or wrong thought, and in following this pattern our conduct and our thinking become mechanical, our responses automatic. We can observe this very easily in ourselves.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you — your relationship with others and with the world — there is nothing else. When you realize this, it either brings great despair, from which comes cynicism and bitterness, or, in facing the fact that you and nobody else is responsible for the world and for yourself, for what you think, what you feel, how you act, all self-pity goes. Normally we thrive on blaming others, which is a form of self-pity.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Eden Express (1975) by Mark Vonnegut, p. 208
“No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1st Public Talk, Bangalore, India (30 January 1971)
“Is it possible to observe without the observer?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1st Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India (7 February 1971)
“Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3rd Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India (14 February 1971)
“To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4th Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India (17 February 1971)
“Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3rd Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (24 May 1971)
“When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1st Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (26 May 1971)
“Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2nd Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland (20 July 1971)
“Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4th Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland (25 July 1971)
“Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 6th Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland (29 July 1971)
“Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 5th Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland (8 August 1971)
“Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 7th Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland (10 August 1971)
“The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 7th Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland (10 August 1971)
“When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1st Question & Answer Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK (7 September 1971)
“Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2nd Question & Answer Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK (11 September 1971)
“Meditation is a state of mind in which the operation and exercise of will is not.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3rd Public Talk, Bangalore, India (13 January 1973)
“When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3rd Public Talk, Bangalore, India (13 January 1973)
“It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees, everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now, and we will have no wars.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talks in Saanen (1974), p. 71
“Truth does not belong to an individual.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 10th Conversation with D. Bohm, Brockwood Park, UK and Gstaad, Switzerland (27 September 1975)