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Truth Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
- I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my…
- Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them…
- Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
- By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather…
- The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in…
- The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is…
- To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to…
- This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.…
- The observer is the observed.
- Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
- And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to…
- In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who…
- In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming,…
- If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is…
- You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what…
- Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering,…
- Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?
- All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers…
- Truth is more in the process than in the result.
- From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of…
- If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of…
- 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…
- Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable…
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