Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought? Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower. Jiddu Krishnamurti flower meditation spiritual To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Jiddu Krishnamurti rewards honesty integrity 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 desire men philosophy Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth-is Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not. Jiddu Krishnamurti emotional love-is country Is it possible to observe without the observer? Jiddu Krishnamurti observers My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt. Jiddu Krishnamurti revolt discord different The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die. Jiddu Krishnamurti love-is beauty men The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying. Jiddu Krishnamurti patterns self-esteem ideas You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention. Jiddu Krishnamurti reading giving character All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. Jiddu Krishnamurti atheist men war What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow. Jiddu Krishnamurti validity tomorrow happens We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused. Jiddu Krishnamurti confused leadership spiritual Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course. Jiddu Krishnamurti harmony courses evil After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is. Jiddu Krishnamurti ego self-esteem desire When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti denied kind authority But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds. Jiddu Krishnamurti orange healing clouds The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself. Jiddu Krishnamurti transformation spiritual world To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education. Jiddu Krishnamurti ends life-is Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? Jiddu Krishnamurti effort ego meditation
