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Action Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world…
- To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
- 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 into being. It…
- Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas…
- Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of…
- A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
- Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
- In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals…
- And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension…
- Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity…
- There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.
- If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and…
- Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes…
- Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
- What is correct action in a deteriorating world?
- When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection,…
- It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
- Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.
- The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is…
- Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more…
More Action Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle