Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth does not belong to an individual.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As we are - the world is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is something which you must see immediately, and to see something clearly you must give your heart, mind and whole being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Honore de Balzac

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

Honore de Balzac

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Imelda Marcos

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Iyanla Vanzant

As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

Iyanla Vanzant

Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.

Iyanla Vanzant

And perhaps you thought, "Because I'm doing so much spiritual work, I'm only going to attract angels." No! The more spiritual work you do, the more darkness you attract. Because the light don't need more light. The darkness needs light! The light doesn't need more light.

Iyanla Vanzant

Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

Isaac Asimov

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

Isaac Asimov

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

Immanuel Kant

After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.

Immanuel Kant

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

Ellen DeGeneres

I see those picketers, and I think you know, if I weren't a loving, non-violent, spiritual person, I would really go over there and grab those signs and smash them over their heads and shove them up their asses. But...I'm a loving, spiritual person.