#J. Krishnamurti quote

[d-i-x-i-t]

Thought doesn’t exist where Love is. - J. Krishnamurti

[philosophors]

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[ttumblllrr]

“A mind is made dull by the weight of knowledge”

J. Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

[rini-descartes]

“Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurthy

[worldwidewandress]

krishnamurti

"You are nothing. You may have your name and title, your property and bank account, you may have power and be famous, but in spite of all these safeguards, you are as nothing. You may be totally unaware of this emptiness, this nothingness, or you may simply not want to be aware of it, but it is there, do what you will to avoid it. You may try to escape from it in devious ways, through personal or collective violence, through individual or collective worship, through knowledge or amusement, but whether you are asleep or awake, it is always there. You can come upon your relationship to this nothingness and its fear only by being choicelessly aware of the escapes. You are not related to it as a separate, individual entity; you are not the observer watching it; without you, the thinker, the observer, it is not. You and nothingness are one; you and nothingness are a joint phenomenon, not two separate processes. If you, the thinker, are afraid of it and approach it as something contrary and opposed to you, then any action you may take towards it must inevitably lead to illusion and so to further conflict and misery. When there is the discovery, the experiencing of that nothingness as you, then fear – which exists only when the thinker is separate from his thoughts and so tries to establish a relationship with them – completely drops away. Only then is it possible for the mind to be still. And in this tranquility, truth comes into being."

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself it will always be empty.

J. Krishnamurti

[solace-philosophy]

I cannot exist by myself. I exist only in relationship to people, things and ideas, and in studying my relationship to outward things and people, as well as to inward things, I begin to understand myself. Every other form of understanding is merely an abstraction and I cannot study myself in abstraction; I am not an abstract entity; therefore I have to study myself in actuality - as I am, not as I wish to be.

-Freedom From the Known, by J. Krishnamurti

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“For centuries we have been spoon-fed by our teachers, by our authorities, by our books, our saints. We say, 'Tell me all about it - what lies beyond the hills and the mountains and the earth?' and we are satisfied with their descriptions, which means that we live on words and our life is shallow and empty. We are secondhand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear. Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras, conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts, sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body, find something beyond this little life. And that is what millions of so-called religious people have done through the ages, either in isolation, going off into the desert or into the mountains or a cave or wandering from village to village with a begging bowl, or, in a group, joining a monastery, forcing their minds to conform to an established pattern. But a tortured mind, a broken mind, a mind which wants to escape from all turmoil, which has denied the outer world and been made dull through discipline and conformity - such a mind, however long it seeks, will find only according to its own distortion.” ~ J Krishnamurti

[Ian Sanders]

[kntxt]

J. Krishnamurti, "The Awakening of Intelligence"

[nothing-but-reverie-and-longing]

— J. Krishnamurti, “Freedom From The Known”

[astroexaminer]

Astro-Inspiration for February 28, 2023: Look Beyond Facts    

Keep your mental radar up and working today, but get the conversations flowing. People feel the need to be heard, but there’s a tendency to pontificate and push the limits today. Best advice: get beyond the mere accumulation of facts to find truths and meaning. Tonight, you could find yourself a bit frustrated, tense and nervous. But don’t be concerned... it’s temporary. As the moon enters Cancer, the atmosphere becomes softer and you’ll feel the need to take some time for deep self-reflection.        

Today’s Quote

“Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.” J. Krishnamurti

Today’s Sky

Mercury in Aquarius Semi Square Jupiter in Aries. Moon in Gemini Square Neptune in Pisces, Trine Mercury in Aquarius, Trine Saturn in Aquarius, Quincunx Pluto in Capricorn. Moon in Gemini V/C 8:06 pm to 9:39 pm EST. Moon enters Cancer. Moon in Cancer Semi Square Uranus in Taurus.  

[christianmasson]

This is supposed to be the beginning of a new year. I wonder what we mean by a new year? Is it a fresh year, a year that is totally fresh, something that has never happened before? When we talk of something new—though we know there is nothing new under the sun—when we talk of a new and happy year, is it really a new year for us? Or is it the same old pattern repeated over and over and over again—the same old rituals, the same old tradition, the same old habits, a continuity of what we have been doing, still are doing, and will do this year also? So is there anything new? Is there anything that is really fresh, something that you have never seen before? I think this is a rather important question if you will follow it. To turn all the days of our life into something which we have never seen before—that means a brain that has freed itself from its conditioning, from its characteristics, from its idiosyncrasies, opinions, judgements, and convictions. Can we put all that aside and really start a new year? It would be marvellous if we could do that. Because our lives are rather shallow, superficial, and there is very little meaning; we are born, whether we like it or not, we are educated, and that may be a hindrance. To change the whole direction of our lives—is that possible? Or, are we condemned forever to lead rather narrow, shoddy, meaningless lives? We fill our brains and our lives with something which thought has put together. Probably in all the churches of the world, in the temples, and all the rest of it they will continue in the same old way—the same old rituals, puja, sandhyavandanam, and so on. Can we drop all that and start anew, with our hearts and minds, on a clean slate and see what comes out of that? J. Krishnamurti From a Question and Answer Meeting in Madras on 1 January 1985, In the Problem is the Solution, page 130 #jkrishnamurti #jkrishnamurtiquotes #jiddukrishnamurti #jiddukrishnamurtiquotes #newyear #2023newyear #newyearsresolution #newyearresolution2023 #quote #quotes #wisdom #yoga https://www.instagram.com/p/CmoqQQaLffL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rini-descartes]

"What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself."

— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

[ttumblllrr]

“You can have marvellous experiences and yet be completely deluded”

J. Krishnamurti, Freedom From The Unknown

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

No one in the world is going to fill your begging bowl. You have to stand completely on your feet, alone.⁠

J. Krishnamurti⁠

[wholenessblooming]

“Destruction is essential. Not of buildings and things but of all the psychological devices and defences: gods, beliefs, dependence on priests, experiences, knowledge and so on. Without destroying all these there cannot be creation. It’s only in freedom that creation comes into being. Another cannot destroy these defences for you; you have to, through your own self-knowing awareness.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti’s Notebook