Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to… — 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
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 Image
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
