Liberating truth ~ Krishnamurti
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. Krishnamurti
Quote Archives: Krishnamurti
You cannot live without dying ~ Krishnamurti
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what […]
Attentive Mind ~ Krishnamurti
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment – attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings – will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an […]
The real is near ~ Krishnamurti
The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is – and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot […]
To be free of all authority ~ Krishnamurti
To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is […]
The moment there is accumulation ~ Krishnamurti
To understand conflict, we must understand relationship, and the understanding of relationship does not depend on memory, on habit, on what has been or what should be. It depends on choiceless awareness from moment to moment, and if we go into it deeply, we shall see that in that awareness there is no accumulative process […]
When you are directly in contact with fear ~ Krishnamurti
You can observe a cloud or a tree or the movement of a river with a fairly quiet mind because they are not very important to you, but to watch yourself is far more difficult because there the demands are so practical, the reactions so quick. So when you are directly in contact with fear […]
Facing the world as it is ~ Krishnamurti
If you really faced the world as it is, and tackled it, you would find it something infinitely greater than any philosophy, greater than any book in the world, greater than any teaching, greater than any teacher. Krishnamurti
Understanding the Seeker ~ Krishnamurti
It is essential to understand the seeker, before you try to find out what it is he is seeking. Krishnamurti
Truth is a pathless land ~ Krishnamurti
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Krishnamurti
An art of listening ~ Krishnamurti
There is an art of listening. To be able really to listen, one should abandon or put aside all prejudices, preformulations and daily activities. When you are in a receptive state of mind, things can be easily understood; you are listening when your real attention is given to something. But unfortunately most of us listen […]
Free of all authority ~ Krishnamurti
To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is […]
Just to be aware ~ Krishnamurti
The self is a problem that thought cannot resolve. There must be an awareness which is not of thought. To be aware, without condemnation or justification, of the activities of the self – just to be aware – is sufficient. Krishnamurti
Not Wanting ~ Krishnamurti
There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere. Krishnamurti
The Source of Violence ~ Krishnamurti
There are so many different kinds of violence. Shall we go into each kind of violence or shall we take the whole structure of violence? Can we look at the whole spectrum of violence, not just at one part of it? … The source of violence is the “me”, the ego, the self, which expresses […]
Freedom from the fear of what is ~ Krishnamurti
Reality can be found only in understanding what is; and to understand what is, there must be freedom, freedom from the fear of what is. Krishnamurti
Co-operation ~ Krishnamurti
Two people who have lived together for a long time have an image of each other which prevents them from really being in relationship. If we understand relationship we can co-operate but co-operation cannot possibly exist through images, through symbols, through ideological conceptions. Krishnamurti
The capacity of meeting everything anew ~ Krishnamurti
This, after all, is the truth: to have the capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is. Krishnamurti
Love is not a duty ~ Krishnamurti
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 the woman to be used and thrown aside, a sort of breeding machine to carry on your […]
Being aware of the activities of the mind ~ Krishnamurti
Meditation is to be aware of the activities of the mind – the mind as the mediator, how the mind divides itself as the mediator and the meditation, how the mind divides itself as the thinker and the thought, the thinker dominating thought, controlling thought, shaping thought. Krishnamurti