Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes - page 9

Man, in order to escape his conflicts, has invented many forms of meditation. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
If I draw a conclusion, I act on an idea, on an image, on a symbol, which is the structure of thought, and so I am constantly preventing myself from having insight, from understanding things as they are. View quote
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I think we must see this very clearly right at the beginning - that if one would solve the everyday problems of existence, whatever they may be, one must first see the wider issues and then come to the detail. View quote
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It is not so much desire as will, resolve, determination. View quote
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There is inattention and rare attention and we are trying to bridge the one to the other. View quote
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I have now decided to disband the Order, as I happen to be its Head. You can form other organizations and expect someone else. With that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free. View quote
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The first step is the last step. The first step is to perceive, perceive what you are thinking, perceive your ambition, perceive your anxiety, your loneliness, your despair, this extraordinary sense of sorrow, perceive it, without any condemnation, justification, without wishing it to be different. View quote
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What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. View quote
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The moment you know love, you have ceased to love. Love is beyond time; it has no beginning and no end, whereas knowledge has; and when you say, "I know what love is”, you don't. You know only a sensation, a stimulus. You know the reaction to love, but that reaction is not love. View quote
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Truth is not to be bought any more than love can be bought. View quote
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Love comes first. To love truth, you must know truth. To know truth is to deny truth. What is known is not truth. What is known is already encased in time and ceases to be truth. Truth is an eternal movement, and so cannot be measured in words or in time. It cannot be held in the fist. You cannot love something which you do not know. But truth is not to be found in books, in images, in temples. It is to be found in action, in living. The very search for the unknown is love itself. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
The brain is the source of thought. View quote
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We know only fragmentarily this extraordinary thing called life. View quote
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Goodness shows itself in behaviour and action and in relationship. View quote
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When death comes, it does not ask your permission; it comes and takes you; it destroys you on the spot. View quote
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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. View quote
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If a hint is not taken, if a word is missed, it is lost forever; for He does not speak twice. View quote
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When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. View quote
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So look at this desire and its nature without thought which is always shaping sensations, pleasure and pain, reward and punishment. Then one understands, not verbally, nor intellectually, the whole causation of desire, the root of desire. The very perception of it, the subtle perception of it, that in itself is intelligence. And that intelligence will always act sanely and rationally in dealing with desire. View quote
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To understand oneself, one needs enormous pliability, and that pliability is denied when we specialize in devotion, in action, in knowledge. View quote
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We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
One can go on endlessly reading, discussing, piling up words upon words, without ever doing anything about it. It is like a man that is always ploughing, never sowing, and therefore never reaping. Most of us are in that position. View quote
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Recognition implies previous knowledge, otherwise you cannot recognize. View quote
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Compassion and intelligence walk together; they are not separate. Compassion acts through intelligence. View quote
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To watch is to observe without choice, to see yourself as you are without any movement of desire to change, which is an extremely arduous thing to do; but that doesn't mean that you are going to remain in your present state. You do not know what will happen if you see yourself as you are without wishing to bring about a change in that which you see. View quote
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