Joy is something entirely different from pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person. Jiddu Krishnamurti heredity-and-environment savages children If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love. Jiddu Krishnamurti teacher love book As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be. Jiddu Krishnamurti mind doe long Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. Jiddu Krishnamurti meditation mind order You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history. Jiddu Krishnamurti giving watches order The description is not the described. Jiddu Krishnamurti semantics description Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress. Jiddu Krishnamurti organization self sleep The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation. Jiddu Krishnamurti life-changing things-in-life thinking In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life The observer is the observed. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique. Jiddu Krishnamurti piano color play Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative. Jiddu Krishnamurti creativity ideas thinking There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery. Jiddu Krishnamurti solitude self discovery You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people. Jiddu Krishnamurti values equal people To be is to be related. Jiddu Krishnamurti related work Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following. Jiddu Krishnamurti conformity tradition life As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I am called -'Enlightened One', 'Son of God', or something else. To me, it has no purpose - as little as when the Buddha said, 'I am the Enlightened One'. Jiddu Krishnamurti matter doe son By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question. Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment. Jiddu Krishnamurti movement moments knowledge
