52 Spiritual Quotes from J Krishnamurthi
J Krishnamurthi. Public Domain Image.
As we are — the world is.
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man.
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.
The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
Truth does not belong to an individual.
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life — perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter. Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is … Matter and energy are interrelated.
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities – would there be these separations?
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.
Love may be the ultimate solution to all man’s difficulties, problems and travails.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don’t live it.
Most of us waste our energy through chattering – endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
Truth is something which you must see immediately, and to see something clearly you must give your heart, mind and whole being.
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it.
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.
There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere.
Truth has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.
It is truth that frees, not your effort to be free
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn’t the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
Freedom is now or never.
Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation. Intelligence is the seeing of what is.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.
To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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 about what love is or should be.
To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand.
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