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Self Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the…
- . . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
- 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…
- That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not…
- So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there…
- Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole…
- When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
- We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
- 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…
- 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…
- The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
- Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining…
- Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.
- It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out…
- Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
- Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
- Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.
- Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
- I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that…
- Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
- There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and…
- Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me…
- Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?
- To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster