Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes - page 7

There is no "how to drop it”, because that is only another form of continuity. To drop opinion, belief, attachment, greed, or envy is to die - to die every day, every moment. If there is the coming to an end of all ambition from moment to moment, then you will know the extraordinary state of being nothing, of coming to the abyss of an eternal movement, as it were, and dropping over the edge - which is death. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
You may have power, position, but at the end of it - what? Please, this is a serious question that you must ask yourself. Another cannot answer this question for you. View quote
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When the mind seeks truth, the truth it has read about in books, that "truth" is self-projected, for then the mind is merely in pursuit of the known, a more satisfactory known than the previous one. When the mind seeks truth, it is seeking its own self-projection, not truth. View quote
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A mind that has understood the whole movement of thought becomes extraordinarily quiet, absolutely silent. That silence is the beginning of the new. View quote
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See what gossip does. It begins with evil thought, and that in itself is a crime. For in everyone and in everything there is good; in everyone and in everything there is evil. View quote
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Because He is Love, you, if you would become one with Him, must be filled with perfect unselfishness and love also. View quote
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This is not mere romantic verbalization but actually it is so, and that is what I would like to talk about now and every time we get together. We must capture the whole and not be carried away by the detail, however pressing, immediate, anxious it may be. I think that is where the revolution begins. View quote
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Love does not compare, and so the envy and torture of "becoming" cease. View quote
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You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else; and although you have been preparing for me for eighteen years, when I say all these things are unnecessary, when I say that you must put them all away and look within yourselves for the enlightenment, for the glory, for the purification, and for the incorruptibility of the self, not one of you is willing to do it. There may be a few, but very, very few. View quote
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Attention is this hearing and this seeing, and this attention has no limitation, no resistance, so it is limitless. To attend implies this vast energy: it is not pinned down to a point. View quote
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When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now, and we will have no wars. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of the known. It cannot be done by thought or by the hidden prompting of thought, nor by desire in the form of prayer, nor through the self-effacing hypnotism of words, images, hopes, and vanities. All these have to come to an end, easily, without effort and choice, in the flame of awareness. View quote
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Attention involves seeing and hearing. We hear not only with our ears but also we are sensitive to the tones, the voice, to the implication of words, to hear without interference, to capture instantly the depth of a sound. View quote
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You are filling your neighbourhood with evil thought instead of with good thought, and so you are adding to the sorrow of the world. View quote
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The becoming is mechanical and implies time. Attention has no quality of time. All this is a tremendously complicated issue. One must gently, deeply go into it. View quote
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The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. View quote
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You are aware of your responses to that passer-by, you are aware that you are judging, condemning or justifying; you are observing. You do not say, "I must not judge, I must not justify". In being aware of your responses, there is no decision at all. View quote
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The rich cannot come to the truth, neither the poor. Nor the people who have taken a vow of celibacy, of silence, of austerity. All that is determined by thought, put together sequentially by thought; it is all the cultivation of deliberate thought, of deliberate intent. View quote
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Our minds and hearts are filled with other things than understanding of "what is". Love and mercy, kindliness and generosity do not cause enmity. When you love, you are very near truth. View quote
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No one can lead you to truth; and if anyone leads you, it can only be to the known. View quote
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That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time - obviously. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Beginning to understand what I am is far more fascinating, far more interesting; it goes beyond all this stupid comparison. View quote
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Compassion is the essence of the wholeness of life. View quote
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First, we must be very clear that you and the speaker are treating life not as a problem but as a tremendous movement. View quote
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How can one be free of the images that one has? First of all, I must find out how these images come into being, what is the mechanism that creates them. View quote
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