Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?”

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352. “Each breath is transforming me into thine image.”

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353. “Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.”

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354. “Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?”

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355. “The very word “sorrow” colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.”

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356. “It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.”

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357. “Actual freedom is freedom from dependency, attachment, from the craving for experience. Freedom from the very structure of thought is to be a light to oneself.”

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358. “A man who says he knows is already dead. But the man who thinks, “I don’t know,” who is discovering, finding out, who is not seeking an end, not thinking in terms of arriving or becoming – such a man is living, and that living is truth.”

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359. “When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.”

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360. “The observer is the observed and therein lies sanity, the whole, and with the holy is love.”

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361. “Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind. And coercion takes many forms, does it not? There is coercion through influence, through attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement or subtle forms of reward.”

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362. “But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.”

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363. “Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.”

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364. “We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.”

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365. “Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.”

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366. “Is not virtue a negation of becoming?”

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367. “There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one’s whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all.”

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368. “Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.”

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369. “Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.”

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370. “Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.”

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371. “Every challenge must always be new, and as long as the mind is conditioned, it responds to challenge according to its conditioning; therefore, there is never an adequate response.”

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372. “The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.”

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373. “Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?”

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374. “Psychological knowledge has made us dull.”

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375. “A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.”

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376. “When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.”

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377. “You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.”

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378. “When there is smoke, how can there be a pure flame?”

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379. “A man who lives never asks, “What is living?” and he has no theories about living. It is only the half-alive who talk about the purpose of life.”

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380. “With most of us, the difficulty is that we are unaware of our escapes. We are so conditioned, so accustomed to our escapes, that we take them as realities. But if we will look more deeply into ourselves, we will see how extraordinarily lonely, how extraordinarily empty, we are under the superficial covering of our escapes.”

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381. “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.”

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382. “Truth does not belong to an individual.”

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383. “If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.”

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384. “Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?”

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385. “As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.”

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386. “Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?”

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387. “To forgive, there must have been a wound; and to be wounded, there must have been the gatherings of pride. There is no generosity of heart as long as there is a referential memory, the “me” and the “mine.”

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388. “Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders.”

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389. “The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.”

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390. “The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.”

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391. “It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

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392. “Humility is unaware of the division of the superior and the inferior, of the Master and the pupil. As.”

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393. “Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.”

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394. “If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.”

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395. “Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.”

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396. “I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence.”

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

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398. “Be a light unto oneself.”

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399. “In a deep river there is richness and many fish can live; but the shallow pool is soon dried up by the strong sun, and nothing remains except mud and dirt. For most of us, love is an extraordinarily difficult thing to understand because our lives are very shallow.”

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400. “Solitude helps the mind to see itself clearly as in a mirror, and to free itself from the vain endeavor of ambition with all its complexities, fears, and frustrations, which are the outcome of self-centered activity.”

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