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
Great seers have always told us to acquire experience. They have said that experience gives us understanding. But it is only the innocent mind, the mind unclouded by experience, totally free from the past—it is only such a mind that can perceive what is reality.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
We crave to be certain, to be right, to be successful, to know; and this desire for certainty, for permanence, builds up within ourselves the authority of personal experience, while outwardly it creates the authority of society, of the family, of religion, and so on.
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
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
When you really love somebody, you are not thinking of good or bad, your whole being is filled with that love. It is only when there is the cessation of complete attention, of love, that there comes the conflict between what I am and what I should be. Then that which I am is evil, and that which I should be is the so-called good.
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
To know yourself, there must be the awareness, the alertness of mind in which there is freedom from all beliefs, from all idealization, because beliefs and ideals only give you a color, perverting true perception.
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.