Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
- The relationship of utility is based on violence; the family as
a means of mutual inward security makes for conflict and confusion.
- The love of Country, the love of God, the love of fellow man,
all that means absolutely nothing, it is just ideas.
- In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained.
There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from
which there comes understanding. In this process when thought and
feeling unfold themselves, which is only possible when there is
neither acquisition nor acceptance, then there comes an extensional
awareness, all the hidden layers and their significance are
revealed.
- Awareness is freedom, it brings freedom, it yields freedom.
- We can only understand something when we see the totality of it,
when we see its whole structure and the meaning of it.
- A mind that is merely inquiring through thought, through reason,
through logic, moving from conclusion to conclusion - surely such a
mind can never find out what is true, and whether there is a
reality.
- If one is aware, one sees how through fear one’s concept of God
arose; or perhaps there was a person who had an original experience
of reality or of God and communicated it to another who in his
greediness made it his own, and gave impetus to the process of
imitation. Awareness is the process of completeness, and
introspection is incomplete. The result of introspection is morbid,
painful, whereas awareness is enthusiasm and joy.
- Without freedom from the past there is no freedom at all,
because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. It is only the
fresh, innocent mind that is free. Freedom has nothing to do with
age, it has nothing to do with experience; and it seems to me that
the very essence of freedom lies in understanding the whole
mechanism of habit, both conscious and unconscious.
- Being conditioned, life becomes fragmentary; life, which is the
everyday living, the everyday thoughts, the aspirations, the sense
of self improvement which is such an ugly thing that is all
fragmentary. This conditioning makes each one of us a self-centred
human being, fighting for his 'self', for his family, for his
nation, for his belief. And so ideological differences arise; you
are a Christian and another is a Muslim or a Hindu.
- Intelligence is not conceptual thinking, nor its expression
through words; but intelligence is this awareness of seeing what
'actually is', and seeing my relationship to the world, which I as a
human being have created; to actually see it in my life: my
activity, my thought, my conservatism, my fears, my love of the new
which becomes acceptance, and so on (which is my daily life).
- We seek happiness through things, through relationship, through thoughts, ideas. So things, relationship, and ideas become all-important and not happiness. When we seek happiness through something, then the thing becomes of greater value than happiness itself.
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