#J. Krishnamurti quote

[petitjeanofficial]

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

[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

[ttumblllrr]

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

J. Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

[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]

> am reading Krishnamurti's book

> came across this specific quote online the other day

> thought about this quote in the context of another idea a few days ago (will post it some time soon)

> opened up the book today and this is literally the second sentence I read

> Harmony is synchronicity?

[nothing-but-reverie-and-longing]

— J. Krishnamurti, “Freedom From The Known”

[mountain-sage]

MOST OF US are so unconcerned with this extraordinary universe about us; we never even see the waving of the leaf in the wind; we never watch a blade of grass, touch it with our hand and know the quality of its being. This is not just being poetic, so please do not go off into a spec-ulative, emotional state. I say it is essential to have that deep feeling for life and not be caught in intellectual ramifications, discussions, passing examinations, quoting and brushing something new aside by saying it has already been said. Intellect is not the way. Intellect will not solve our problems; the intellect will not give us that nourishment which is imperishable. The intellect can reason, discuss, analyze, come to a conclusion from in-ferences, and so on, but intellect is limited, for intellect is the result of our conditioning. But sensitivity is not.

Sensitivity has no conditioning; it takes you right out of the field of fears and anxieties. The mind that is not sensitive to everything about it - to the mountain, the telegraph pole, the lamp, the voice, the smile, everything - is incapable of finding what is true.

But we spend our days and years in cultivating the intel-lect, in arguing, discussing, fighting, struggling to be something, and so on. And yet this extraordinarily wonderful world, this earth that is so rich - not the Bombay earth, the Punjab earth, the Russian earth or the American earth - this earth is ours, yours and mine, and that is not sentimental nonsense; it is a fact. But unfortunately we have divided it up through our pettiness, through our provincialism. And we know why we have done it - for our security, for better jobs and more jobs. That is the political game that is being played throughout the world, and so we forget to be human beings, to live happily on this earth which is ours and to make something of it.

J. Krishnamurti

[onlygodis]

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you, the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is not an emotion, it's your very existence. ~ Rumi

[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

[rini-descartes]

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

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

[noosphe-re]

I would say that that light is needed to be thrown on thought. If it isn’t, thought is a bunch of shadows which will be taken for realities.

David Bohm, Beyond Limits, a conversation between David Bohm and Jiddu Krishnamurti

[ttumblllrr]

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

J. Krishnamurti, Freedom From The Unknown