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State Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in…
- Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no…
- There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all
- Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There…
- The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
- When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and…
- Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state…
- Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.
- Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.
- Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
- To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is…
- 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,…
- You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in…
- Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long…
- The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila