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
Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending...
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.
In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.
Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.
The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.
The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.
If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.
What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.