Attention Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

14 Attention quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti challenges conventional thinking, and his reflections on attention invite you to question habitual focus. Fourteen concise thoughts provoke a quiet, introspective stance toward observing one’s own mind.

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What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

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To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is…

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The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

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“To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the…

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Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer…

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When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your…

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To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control,…

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Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one…

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You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when…

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When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time…

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You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are…

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This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease…

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There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to…

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Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present,…

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Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

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Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

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Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

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The observer is the observed.

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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…

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A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

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