Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Hate Quotes, Mean Quotes

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Hate Quotes , Mean Quotes

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Water Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Self Esteem Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Despair exists only when there is hope.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Despair Quotes

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Different Quotes , Centre Quotes

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Order Quotes

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Communication Quotes , Levels Quotes

I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Trying Quotes , Impossible Quotes

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Be a light unto oneself

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Light Quotes

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Discipline Quotes , Mind Quotes

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Environment Quotes , Fulfilment Quotes

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Two Quotes , Violence Quotes

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , War Quotes , Soldier Quotes

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Inspire Quotes

Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Memories Quotes , Self Quotes

It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Being Yourself Quotes , Guy Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Mind Quotes