If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate


Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967 (ed. Castrovilli Giuseppe, 1969)

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background,...

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background,...

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background,...

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background,...