The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret. Jiddu Krishnamurti sad passion hurt What you believe you experience. Jiddu Krishnamurti semantics believe The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain Jiddu Krishnamurti truth love life Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes. Jiddu Krishnamurti our-relationship mines together Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. Jiddu Krishnamurti companionship dies Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. Jiddu Krishnamurti understanding meditation spiritual Those who play a safe game die very safely. Jiddu Krishnamurti safe games play Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence. Jiddu Krishnamurti silence reading book Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. Jiddu Krishnamurti enlightenment freedom inspire To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure. Jiddu Krishnamurti absolutely-nothing There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. Jiddu Krishnamurti education love life Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. Jiddu Krishnamurti love life country One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. Jiddu Krishnamurti uplifting spiritual fear The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not. Jiddu Krishnamurti awareness moments mean Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves. Jiddu Krishnamurti our-relationship humans two When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. Jiddu Krishnamurti mirrors self spiritual Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this? Jiddu Krishnamurti flower eye spiritual There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me. Jiddu Krishnamurti there-is-hope people We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not. Jiddu Krishnamurti singers want writing Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict. Jiddu Krishnamurti awakening essence spiritual
