The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought originates from conclusions.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
You may be the result of certain tendencies, of environmental influences, but you are not different fundamentally from another. Inwardly we are very much alike; we are all driven by greed, ill will, fear, ambition, and so on. Our beliefs, hopes, aspirations have a common basis.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Authority engenders power, and power always becomes centralized and therefore utterly corrupting; it corrupts not only the wielder of power, but also him who follows it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
What we call knowledge is comparatively easy, because that is a movement from the known to the known. But to learn is a movement from the known to the unknown—you learn only like that, do you not?
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
That which is eternal cannot be sought after; the mind cannot acquire it. It comes into being when the mind is quiet, and the mind can be quiet only when it is simple, when it is no longer storing up, condemning, judging, weighing. It is only the simple mind that can understand the real, not the mind that is full of words, knowledge, information. T... See more
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
We judge, we evaluate, we compare, we deny or accept, but we never observe actually what is, and for most people this seems to be the most difficult thing to do; yet this alone is the beginning of self-knowledge.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
the difficulty for most of us is that the mind has become so important, so predominantly significant, that it interferes constantly with anything that may be new, with anything that may exist simultaneously with the known.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Truth or understanding comes in a flash, and that flash has no continuity; it is not within the field of time. Do see this for yourself. Understanding is fresh, instantaneous; it is not the continuity of something that has been.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
No authority here or hereafter can give you knowledge of yourself; without self-knowledge there is no liberation from ignorance, from sorrow.