Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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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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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
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Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?
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Thought shattering itself against its own nothingness is the explosion of meditation.
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The world is me and I am the world.
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Thought itself must deny itself. Thought itself sees what it is doing and therefore thought itself realizes that it has to come of itself to an end. There is no other factor than itself. Therefore when thought realizes that whatever it does, any movement that it makes, is disorder (we are taking that as an example) then there is silence.
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To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
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Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
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Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?
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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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Meditation is a state of mind in which the operation and exercise of will is not.
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between 'what is' and 'what should be'.
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You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.
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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.