When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it. Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti More Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary. Jiddu Krishnamurti landteachermen And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are. Jiddu Krishnamurti our-societywarworld Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless. Jiddu Krishnamurti gossiphatejourney To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time. Jiddu Krishnamurti meditation-practicemindquiet To keep always in the same place means to stagnate. Jiddu Krishnamurti mean You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate. Jiddu Krishnamurti flowermaycountry The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens. Jiddu Krishnamurti wisdomwiseclever Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. Jiddu Krishnamurti conveniencecunningclever The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state. Jiddu Krishnamurti psychologicalstatesspiritual Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you. Jiddu Krishnamurti frighteningpassionifs Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have? Jiddu Krishnamurti reactionsawakeningspiritual The only freedom is the freedom from the known. Jiddu Krishnamurti known The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery. Jiddu Krishnamurti minddesirediscovery Without knowing yourself, there is no peace. Jiddu Krishnamurti know-yourselfknowing It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight. Jiddu Krishnamurti insightbeautifulinteresting Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief. Jiddu Krishnamurti conditionsbelief Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti truthlovelife Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti perceptionmeditationbrain We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied. Jiddu Krishnamurti sorrowover-youspiritual If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour. Jiddu Krishnamurti lightmeditationmen
