Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurtiwas a speaker and writer on matters that concerned humankind. In his early life he was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the organization behind it. His subject matter included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. He constantly stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasised that such revolution cannot be brought...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 May 1895
CountryIndia
Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes about
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.
We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.
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.
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.
Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is ... Matter and energy are interrelated.
Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.
To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.