Joy is something entirely different from pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business. Jiddu Krishnamurti know-yourselfmastersteacher How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines. Jiddu Krishnamurti communitymindmen Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. Jiddu Krishnamurti truthlovelife When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes. Jiddu Krishnamurti effortmeditationtwo To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine. Jiddu Krishnamurti importantresponsibilityworld The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. Jiddu Krishnamurti meditation-practicehurtmean 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 achievementcontentmentoutcomes You can only be afraid of what you think you know. Jiddu Krishnamurti you-think-you-knowfearthinking You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower. Jiddu Krishnamurti being-yourselfperceptionteacher The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter. Jiddu Krishnamurti deceptionselfdesire Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy. Jiddu Krishnamurti uninvitedmomentsconscious Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation. Jiddu Krishnamurti isolationknow-yourselfrelationship It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. Jiddu Krishnamurti efforttruthreligion Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life. Jiddu Krishnamurti timesongbeautiful If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship. You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband. Jiddu Krishnamurti lovesportslife To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti understandingimportantlying Despair exists only when there is hope. Jiddu Krishnamurti there-is-hopedespair The ambitious man has never found his true vocation. Jiddu Krishnamurti ambitiousfoundmen Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation. Jiddu Krishnamurti creationcreativemind In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea. Jiddu Krishnamurti clevercharactercountry
