Tree Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

13 Tree quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti’s brief reflections use the tree as a mirror for the mind, encouraging readers to question assumptions and observe thought’s growth.

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Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is…

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Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, 'That is an oak tree', or 'that is a…

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We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and…

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Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth,…

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Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in…

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Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people…

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When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is,…

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It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to…

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We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it,…

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If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers,…

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But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that…

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Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind…

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We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept,…

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A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an…

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I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for…

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Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

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Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him…

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

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Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

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We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a…

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“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is…

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“Meditation is like going to a well, the waters of which are inexhaustible, with a pitcher that is always empty. The pitcher can never…

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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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