Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your anxiety, your joy. Jiddu Krishnamurti nameslove-youmen If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind. Jiddu Krishnamurti my-ownmindreality All tradition is merely the past. Jiddu Krishnamurti traditionculturepast Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all. Jiddu Krishnamurti past It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will. Jiddu Krishnamurti spiritualorderworld As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery. Jiddu Krishnamurti discoverygivingthinking Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love. Jiddu Krishnamurti semanticssentimentality Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy. Jiddu Krishnamurti unhappinessstatesmoments Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. Jiddu Krishnamurti spiritualjobsprofound The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not? Jiddu Krishnamurti urgesstillsdesire 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. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Jiddu Krishnamurti inspirationallovelife It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression . Jiddu Krishnamurti expressionselfrain Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also. Jiddu Krishnamurti distractiongonemind It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars. Jiddu Krishnamurti hurtwarlife If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact. Jiddu Krishnamurti silentwantfacts No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be. Jiddu Krishnamurti philosopherbookthinking To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration. Jiddu Krishnamurti invitesfulfillmentfrustration It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love. Jiddu Krishnamurti laughterspiritualart The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti passionchangelove Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. Jiddu Krishnamurti expectingeffortmind
