As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable. Jiddu Krishnamurti meditationmindheart Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom. Jiddu Krishnamurti beliefwayideas Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination. Jiddu Krishnamurti imaginationrealityneeds The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning. Jiddu Krishnamurti rocksspiritualanimal In the denial of that disorder there is order. Jiddu Krishnamurti denialdisorderorder Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'? Jiddu Krishnamurti causesproblemfear Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming. Jiddu Krishnamurti conflictegobecoming Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true. Jiddu Krishnamurti beliefthinking It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse. Jiddu Krishnamurti creativeartistpeople There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related. Jiddu Krishnamurti particularendsmay Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time. Jiddu Krishnamurti learningtakenmoving You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.' Jiddu Krishnamurti ambitiontruthfear To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found. Jiddu Krishnamurti awarenessselfbook There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically. Jiddu Krishnamurti spiritualbelievecountry If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion. Jiddu Krishnamurti templespersonalitypeople Is not virtue a negation of becoming? Jiddu Krishnamurti virtuebecomingattachment Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti compassionselfspiritual We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study. Jiddu Krishnamurti reflectionselfspiritual I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole. Jiddu Krishnamurti responsibilityfeelingsthinking You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love. Jiddu Krishnamurti simplicityspiritualmean
