Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare — something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state — something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption. Man has always asked the question: what is it all about? Has life any meaning at all? He sees the enormous confusion of life, the brutalities, the revolt, the wars, the endless divisions of religion, ideology and nationality, and with a sense of deep abiding frustration he asks, what is one to do, what is this thing we call living, is there anything beyond it?

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I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally.

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We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

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Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

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If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.

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Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

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Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

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A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

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When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

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Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not
enslaved by tradition and memory.

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It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

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A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

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Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

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When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

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We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human
being.

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To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.

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So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

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We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true...

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It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

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Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

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