Analysis does not transform consciousness. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? Jiddu Krishnamurti discipline coercion mind As we are - the world is. Jiddu Krishnamurti spiritual world Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not? Jiddu Krishnamurti why-not pain spiritual The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. Jiddu Krishnamurti freedom guru inspire 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? Jiddu Krishnamurti powerful war children There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free." Jiddu Krishnamurti being-free freedom two Happy is the man who is nothing. Jiddu Krishnamurti men After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking? Jiddu Krishnamurti bases understanding thinking Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both. Jiddu Krishnamurti backyards flower spiritual From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs. Jiddu Krishnamurti simplicity simple needs 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, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate Jiddu Krishnamurti silence listening ideas The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die. Jiddu Krishnamurti insecure love-is men Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti inquiry meditation mind Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting. Jiddu Krishnamurti waste energy spiritual Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. Jiddu Krishnamurti wall loneliness race Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti continuity pleasure giving Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man. Jiddu Krishnamurti levels understanding action Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. Jiddu Krishnamurti perceive essentials capacity Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on. Jiddu Krishnamurti healthy yoga exercise We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words. Jiddu Krishnamurti meditation memories people
