Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. Jiddu Krishnamurti denialauthorityacceptance Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. Jiddu Krishnamurti truthlovelife This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies. Jiddu Krishnamurti truthlovelife The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place. Jiddu Krishnamurti advancementwaythinking I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains. Jiddu Krishnamurti breezemountainnames Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing. Jiddu Krishnamurti eyemeditationmean War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder. Jiddu Krishnamurti everydaysoldierwar Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars. Jiddu Krishnamurti divisionreligiouswar Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter. Jiddu Krishnamurti wallspiritualmatter In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind. Jiddu Krishnamurti truthlovelife The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical. Jiddu Krishnamurti heartrunningorder Intuition is the only true guide in life. Jiddu Krishnamurti intuitionguides Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it? Jiddu Krishnamurti qualitycompassiontrying Do it or don't do it but get on with it. Jiddu Krishnamurti The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Jiddu Krishnamurti clarityawakeningspiritual Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity. Jiddu Krishnamurti free-willawarenesschoices When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following. Jiddu Krishnamurti followerswantideas Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. Jiddu Krishnamurti cogsmachinessuffering And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction. We do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the me, love is the conflict of the me and the not-me. This conflict, this torture, is not love. Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction. Jiddu Krishnamurti spacelove-ismen Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation. Jiddu Krishnamurti spacemeditationwaiting
