Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“One has to know what it is to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Meditation is like going to a well, the waters of which are inexhaustible, with a pitcher that is always empty. The pitcher… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Thought exists only in words, or in images. Meditation demands the most extraordinary discipline – not the discipline of suppression and conformity… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“You can do it at any time. You can do it when you are sitting in a bus – that is, watch,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The whole point of meditation is not to follow the path laid down by thought to what it considers to be truth,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The mind must empty itself of all the past to become highly sensitive; and it cannot be sensitive if there is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
“Meditation is like going to a well, the waters of which are inexhaustible, with a pitcher that is always empty. The pitcher can never… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
