The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
To listen there must be an inward quietness, a freedom from the strain of acquiring, a relaxed attention.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Truth or understanding comes in a flash, and that flash has no continuity; it is not within the field of time. Do see this for yourself. Understanding is fresh, instantaneous; it is not the continuity of something that has been.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
It is the man who is consumed by the intellect who has beliefs, because intellect is always seeking security, protection; it is always avoiding danger, and therefore it builds ideas, beliefs, ideals, behind which it can take shelter.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
We want peace only as an idea, but not as an actuality. We want peace on the verbal level, which is only on the thinking level, though we proudly call it the intellectual level. But the word peace is not peace. Peace can only be when the confusion which you and another make ceases. We are attached to the world of ideas and not to peace.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
God is a fiction; you may believe in it, but still it is a fiction. But to find God you must completely destroy the fiction, because the old mind is the mind that is frightened, is ambitious, is fearful of death, of living, and of relationship; and it is always, consciously or unconsciously, seeking a permanency, security.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Authority prevents learning—learning that is not the accumulation of knowledge as memory.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
This, after all, is the truth: to have the capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is.