That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“You can do it at any time. You can do it when you are sitting in a bus – that is, watch,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Woke up this morning, rather early, with a sense of a mind that had penetrated into unknown depths. It was as though… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Innocence alone can be passionate. The innocent have no sorrow, no suffering, though they have had a thousand experiences. It is not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The mind must empty itself of all the past to become highly sensitive; and it cannot be sensitive if there is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this… — 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
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no… — 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
“The mind finds security and strength in religious and political patterns, and this is what gives stamina to the organizations.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of… — 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
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
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
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
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
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
