Meditation Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The flowering of love is meditation.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is the action of silence.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

“Krishnamurti admonishes us that “Meditation is not something different from daily life … it is the seeing of what is and going…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Meditation is like going to a well, the waters of which are inexhaustible, with a pitcher that is always empty. The pitcher…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Thought exists only in words, or in images. Meditation demands the most extraordinary discipline – not the discipline of suppression and conformity…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The whole point of meditation is not to follow the path laid down by thought to what it considers to be truth,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You can do it at any time. You can do it when you are sitting in a bus – that is, watch,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The mind must empty itself of all the past to become highly sensitive; and it cannot be sensitive if there is the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti