Can you look at a flower without thinking? Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. Jiddu Krishnamurti love peace life We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform. Jiddu Krishnamurti russia europe children Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid? Jiddu Krishnamurti extraordinary-beauty stupid jobs People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house." Jiddu Krishnamurti suits house people A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere. Jiddu Krishnamurti drunk wish men Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow. Jiddu Krishnamurti transformation revolution tomorrow All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Jiddu Krishnamurti path spiritual Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. Jiddu Krishnamurti self spiritual mind Freedom from something is not freedom. Jiddu Krishnamurti freedom Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti meditation spiritual art To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves. Jiddu Krishnamurti change spiritual life We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti vision different tree If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away. Jiddu Krishnamurti eye faces motivational To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life Only the free mind knows what Love is. Jiddu Krishnamurti mind love-is life It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline. Jiddu Krishnamurti effort discipline spiritual When you are free, you have no choice. Jiddu Krishnamurti choices Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion. Jiddu Krishnamurti outcomes truth matter You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy. Jiddu Krishnamurti mind trying moving
