Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

• To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  Tags in Meditation, Mind

• If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

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  Topics in Experience, Luck, Work

  Tags in Freedom, Mystery

• Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Learning, Teaching, Competition

• 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

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  Tags in Listening, Communication

• 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.

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  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Empathy, Listening

• The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating.

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  Tags in Observation, Reason, Judgment

• Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

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  Tags in Psychology, Philosophy

• Being well adjusted to a sick society is not an indication of health.

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  Tags in Philosophy

• If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

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  Tags in Change/Growth, Understanding, Patience

• 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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  Topics in Inspirational, Joy, Past

  Tags in New, Forgiveness

• Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. 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, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

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  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

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  Topics in Nature, Religion, Spirituality

  Tags in Relationships

• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Heart, Moment, Feel

• We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young – not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age – and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

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  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Solitude, Meditation, Self

• Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  Tags in Tradition, Security

• If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

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  Tags in Worry

• Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Imitation

• Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all thought, for thought and feeling dissipate energy.

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• There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply – aware.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti (62)

Birth:	1895
Death:	1986
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Philosopher

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Jiddu Krishnamurti was born in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was an Indian philosopher, public speaker and author. His subject matter included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. Krishnamurti's teachings have had an influence on the thoughts of several notable public figures, including Kahlil Gibran, Aldous Huxley, Henry Miller, Bruce Lee, Jackson Pollock, David Bohm, Deepak Chopra, Indira Gandhi, and Eckhart Tolle. He wrote several books include: Education and the significance of life, The First and Last Freedom, Life Ahead, The Only Revolution, The Flight of the Eagle, The awakening of intelligence, Krishnamurti's Notebook, The ending of time (with David Bohm), On Love and Loneliness, On relationship, On fear, and The book of life. He established Krishnamurti foundations in the United States, Britain, India, Spain, and Canada to further his aims. His death at his home in Ojai, California, USA.

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