The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer… — 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
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Image
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
