The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Now, when I have put all these questions to myself and I am aware of this problem, I see there can only be one state in which reality, newness, can come into being, which brings about a revolution. That state is when the mind is completely empty of the past, when there is no analyzer, no experience, no judgment, no authority of any kind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
We want peace only as an idea, but not as an actuality. We want peace on the verbal level, which is only on the thinking level, though we proudly call it the intellectual level. But the word peace is not peace. Peace can only be when the confusion which you and another make ceases. We are attached to the world of ideas and not to peace.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
You will find that the more you listen to everything, the greater is the silence, and that silence is then not broken by noise. It is only when you are resisting something, when you are putting up a barrier between yourself and that to which you do not want to listen—it is only then that there is a struggle.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
We realize that life is ugly, painful, sorrowful; we want some kind of theory, some kind of speculation or satisfaction, some kind of doctrine, which will explain all this, and so we are caught in explanation, in words, in theories, and gradually beliefs become deeply rooted and unshakable because behind those beliefs, behind those dogmas, there is... See more
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.
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
You are struggling to become something, and that something is part of yourself. The ideal is your own projection.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Knowledge and wisdom do not go together. Wisdom comes when there is the maturity of self-knowing. Without knowing oneself, order is not possible, and therefore there is no virtue.
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.