Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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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Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

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Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

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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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The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

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If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

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The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

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Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

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The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.

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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.

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Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

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In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

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Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

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You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

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Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating... The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.

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When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your anxiety, your joy.
You do not dominate. You are not the man and she is not the woman to be used and thrown aside, a sort of breeding machine to carry on your name.
When there is love, the word duty disappears.

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