49 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Indian Philosopher

Born: May 12, 1895

Died: Feb 17, 1986

Fear Love Mind Truth You Yourself

Related authors: Amartya Sen Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Nagarjuna Ramana Maharshi Sri Aurobindo Sri Chinmoy Swami Sivananda

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion Man Thought Build Out Temples Frozen Which

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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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. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention. Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listening Own Projecting Only Through Importance Listens Which Desires

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be? Jiddu Krishnamurti

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When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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This is love: the flowering of love is meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love Love Is Meditation Flowering

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

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If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education? Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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