Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
- Attention has no motive. When there is a motive for attention,
is there attention? If I pay attention in order to acquire
something, the acquisition, whether it be good or bad, is not
attention it is a distraction. A division. There can be goodness
only when there is a totality of attention in which there is no
effort to be or not to be.
- If there is an awareness of the beginning of thought, then there
is no contradiction in thought.
- One of our greatest problems is sorrow. We have accepted sorrow
as a way of life, just as we have accepted war as a way of life war
not only on the battlefield but war within ourselves the everlasting
struggle, both inwardly and outwardly. We have accepted sorrow as a
way of life, yet we have never asked if it is at all possible to end
sorrow, completely.
- You know what fear is? Each one has his own particular form of
fear - not one, but multiple fears. A mind that has any form of fear
cannot obviously have the quality of love, sympathy, tenderness.
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it
distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever
and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs. If
you see that fear is destructive, then how do you proceed to wipe
the mind clean?
- A mind that is habitual is insensitive, a mind that is
functioning within the groove of a particular action is dull,
unpliable, whereas awareness demands constant pliability, alertness.
- It is observing and watching the facts of that life looking at
it; and out of this observation the mind becomes highly intelligent.
It is this intelligence that is going to answer non-fragmentarily,
as an action which will be right under all circumstances. It is this
intelligence that is going to act, not a formula, of what action
should be.
- All relationships between human beings are based on images. You
have an image about your friend, or your wife or your husband, and
he or she has an image about you, the relationship is between these
two images - this is obvious.
- As long as you remain within that field of the culture, of
society, of greed, of envy, of achievement, you are not a free human
being. You may think you have free will, but you are just part of
this monstrous society, a conditioned human being.
- A man who is seeking truth must invite disturbances,
tribulations because it is only in moments of crisis that there is
alertness, watchfulness, action. Then only that which is is
discovered and understood.
- We rather cling to the known than face the unknown, the known
being our loneliness, our sorrow, our embittered existence. And as
we cannot face that thing called death, we invent all kinds of
theories; in the East reincarnation, here resurrection, or whatever
it is.
- To understand these problems one must have a very alert mind; not a sloppy mind, not a complex, erudite learned mind, but rather a mind that is willing to see clearly, willing to examine, explore - not in terms of its own idiosyncrasies, nor inclination, nor temperament, but rather to examine things as they are; and to examine things as they are one has to have attention, care.
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