Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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Waiting the word of the Master, Watching the Hidden Light; Listening to his orders In the very midst of the fight; Seeing His slightest signal Across the heads of the throng; Hearing His faintest whisper Above earth's loudest song.
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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
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Is there a thinker apart from thought?
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Truth does not belong to an individual.
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We human beings are what we have been for millions of years - colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection. We are a strange mixture of hate, fear and gentleness; we are both violence and peace.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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Where there is fear there is aggression.
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Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.
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So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
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Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
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The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
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Can you look at a flower without thinking?
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Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.
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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
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If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
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Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
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Is it possible to observe without the observer?
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Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.