Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society. Jiddu Krishnamurti lonely beautiful mean It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true. Jiddu Krishnamurti parent teacher life The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. Jiddu Krishnamurti intelligence judgement inspirational When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. Jiddu Krishnamurti spiritual christian country I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. Jiddu Krishnamurti attachment essence spiritual 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. Jiddu Krishnamurti childhood spiritual school It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti health yoga spiritual Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and be still. Then for the first time our consciousness can become whole and unfragmented. Then total attention can be given to all of our thoughts and feelings. And then there will be found a gentleness and a goodness in us that can embrace all that is been given in the world. Then a deep love for everything will be the result of this deep attention. For this total attention, this soft and pure consciousness that we are, is nothing but Love itself. Jiddu Krishnamurti creating fighting love A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. Jiddu Krishnamurti it-is-what-it-is lilies rose When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life 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. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti inspirational love life Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti inward fear desire You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this. Jiddu Krishnamurti understanding doe want To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti fixing heart world Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti changes-in-society importance humans What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world. Jiddu Krishnamurti transformation world Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is. Jiddu Krishnamurti awakening should spiritual Intuition is the whisper of the soul. Jiddu Krishnamurti intuition soul Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning. Jiddu Krishnamurti different spiritual long
