Listening Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

10 Listening quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti’s take on listening is a quiet invitation to notice without judgment. Across ten short passages he gently points out how listening can reveal the mind’s own conditioning and open space for clarity.

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Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

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Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.

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So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the…

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If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your…

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If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our…

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Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to…

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Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without…

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Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a…

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Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a…

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“How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only…

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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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