Joy is something entirely different from pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things. Jiddu Krishnamurti use mean children We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness. Jiddu Krishnamurti selfishness desire feelings I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases to exist. It is then a question of a different attitude. Jiddu Krishnamurti different goal attitude You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood. Jiddu Krishnamurti misunderstood talking ideas What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion. Jiddu Krishnamurti confusion personality teacher When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful. Jiddu Krishnamurti artist beautiful long Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest. Jiddu Krishnamurti students education helping When the wind blows across the various continents, it does not bring with it the nationalities of the countries through which it passes. So likewise with Life. Jiddu Krishnamurti blow wind country Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone. Jiddu Krishnamurti harmony stage gone Can thought be silent? Jiddu Krishnamurti silent Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle. Jiddu Krishnamurti struggle men order Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. Jiddu Krishnamurti free-spirit spiritual mind Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally. Jiddu Krishnamurti training spiritual perfect Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear. Jiddu Krishnamurti breeze meditation window It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark. Jiddu Krishnamurti light dark world And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness. Jiddu Krishnamurti solitude loneliness people Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling. Jiddu Krishnamurti attachment flow feelings That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation. Jiddu Krishnamurti creation mind thinking Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no Jiddu Krishnamurti married falling-in-love simple Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought. Jiddu Krishnamurti insight matter memories
