U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.
Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.
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.
If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.
If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.
After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?
Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.
Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.
To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.