Joy is something entirely different from pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. Jiddu Krishnamurti function fear mind If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti love life children The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time. Jiddu Krishnamurti pain hurt memories If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death. Jiddu Krishnamurti passionate believe people Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else. Jiddu Krishnamurti worship-you enlightenment spiritual Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking. Jiddu Krishnamurti knowing real thinking From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible. Jiddu Krishnamurti compromise impossible trying Freedom is now or never. Jiddu Krishnamurti now-or-never spiritual mind A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder. Jiddu Krishnamurti inward men order And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other. Jiddu Krishnamurti relationship philosophy life Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle. Jiddu Krishnamurti struggle years thinking If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life To be religious is to be sensitive to reality. Jiddu Krishnamurti sensitive religious reality Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine. Jiddu Krishnamurti buddhist christian men Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. Jiddu Krishnamurti spiritual love-is ideas When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti important meditation practice Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action. Jiddu Krishnamurti skills action art
