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Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes and Sayings
- Truth can only come to the mind that is
empty of the known. It comes in a state in which
the known is absent, not functioning. The mind
is the warehouse of the known, the residue of
the known; for the mind to be in that state in
which the unknown comes into being, it must be
aware of itself, of its previous experiences,
the conscious as well as the unconscious, of its
responses, reactions, and structure.
- To receive truth, to know its beauty, to
know its joy, there must be instant receptivity,
unclouded by theories, fears and answers.
- The quiet mind is not possible through the
use of any drug or through the repetition of
words; you can reduce it to dullness, but it is
not quiet.
- To understand these problems one must have a
very alert mind; not a sloppy mind, not a
complex, erudite learned mind, but rather a mind
that is willing to see clearly, willing to
examine, explore - not in terms of its own
idiosyncrasies, nor inclination, nor
temperament, but rather to examine things as
they are; and to examine things as they are one
has to have attention, care.
- It is extremely difficult to be aware of
dullness, to be aware of greed, to be aware of
ill will, ambition and so on. The very fact of
being aware of what is is truth. It is truth
that liberates, not your striving to be free.
Thus reality is not far but we place it far away
because we try to use it as a means of
self-continuity. It is here, now, in the
immediate.
- The eternal or the timeless is now and the
now cannot be understood by a man who is caught
in the net of time. To free thought from time
demands action, but the mind is lazy, it is
slothful, and therefore ever creates other
hindrances. It is only possible by right
meditation.
- Simplicity is not to be found; it does not
lie as a choice between the essential and the
non-essential. It comes into being only when the
self is not; when the mind is not caught in
speculations, conclusions, beliefs, ideations.
Such a free mind only can find truth. Such a
mind alone can receive that which is
immeasurable, which is unnameable; and that is
simplicity.
- To find out what absolute truth is, thought
must be understood - the whole movement and the
nature of thought must be gone into, observed.
And it has its relative place, and so the mind
then becomes absolutely still and perhaps out of
that, in that stillness, truth is perceived,
which is not to be measured by words.
- A man who is seeking truth must invite
disturbances, tribulations because it is only in
moments of crisis that there is alertness,
watchfulness, action. Then only that which is is
discovered and understood.
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