Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

• To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine…

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• 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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• You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

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  Topics in Fear, Inspirational, Knowledge

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tradition, Security

• 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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• The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

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  Tags in Widsom

• Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

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  Topics in Education, Religion

  Tags in Government

• Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. 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

• Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Companionship

• The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement.

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  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Self, Judgement

• 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.

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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

• It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Health, Politics

  Tags in Injustice, Insanity

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

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Observation, Reason, Judgment

• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• 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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change/Growth, Understanding, Patience

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Attention, Understanding, Listening, Mind

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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