Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education? Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption. Jiddu Krishnamurti Read Quote
