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Ideas Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations,…
- Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to…
- 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…
- Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.
- The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
- 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…
- There is no tranquility in ideas.
- Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.
- 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…
- The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.
- Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together…
- When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
- A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
- Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be…
- There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea,…
- And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.
- Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has…
- It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas or theological concepts.…
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