Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

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After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

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When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

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The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

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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.

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Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

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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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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

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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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There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

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You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

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You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

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Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

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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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We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.

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You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique...

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Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

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Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

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As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

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There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

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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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Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

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Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.

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Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

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Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.

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Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

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