Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti causes knowing helping Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has. Jiddu Krishnamurti understanding real spiritual Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office. Jiddu Krishnamurti spiritual home order It is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your husband, your neighbor, your child, your country, your leaders, your politicians, your gods-you have nothing but images. The images create the space between you and what you observe and in that space there is conflict, so what we are going to find out now together is whether it is possible to be free of the space we create, not only outside ourselves but in ourselves, the space which divides people in all their relationships. Jiddu Krishnamurti husband life country Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again? Jiddu Krishnamurti wall hurt past The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people. Jiddu Krishnamurti government wise people If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish. Jiddu Krishnamurti emotion problem sex The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual. Jiddu Krishnamurti perfection mind heart The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems. Jiddu Krishnamurti projection problem world Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities. Jiddu Krishnamurti love relationship life But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity. Jiddu Krishnamurti humanity earth may It does not matter what you call the gaoler so long as he has the key that will open the door of your prison! Similarly, as I have the key to release Life from its prison, it does not matter in the least what you call either the key or myself. I am not concerned about the title. Jiddu Krishnamurti keys doors long Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous. Jiddu Krishnamurti flower inspirational life Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action. Jiddu Krishnamurti self spiritual reality To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one. Jiddu Krishnamurti important steps But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation. Jiddu Krishnamurti office self-esteem war It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood. Jiddu Krishnamurti important giving mean Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. Jiddu Krishnamurti creative self spiritual Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one Life. Anyone who has not fulfilled that life must step down the Truth, and when he does that, he is unconsciously betraying the Truth. Jiddu Krishnamurti different expression doe
