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1895–1986 India
Jiddu Krishnamurti (11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was a spiritual teacher, public speaker, and writer, on psychological, sociological, and spiritual subjects.
India Non-fiction authors Philosophers Also known as: J. Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti, Jiddu
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
Where there is fear there is aggression.
You are really not watching at all, because your mind is concerned with gaining a reward.
Freedom From the Self (1955)
Because He is Love, you, if you would become one with Him, must be filled with perfect unselfishness and love also.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie.
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
You know, actually we have no love — that is a terrible thing to realize.
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
The understanding of relationship, fear, pleasure and sorrow is to bring order in our house. Without order you cannot possibly meditate.
The Network of Thought (1982)
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?
This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
How can one be free of the images that one has? First of all, I must find out how these images come into being, what is the mechanism that creates them.
The Awakening of Intelligence (1973)
Is it possible to observe without the observer?
Can you look at a flower without thinking?
In the denial of disorder there is order.
Attention is this hearing and this seeing, and this attention has no limitation, no resistance, so it is limitless. To attend implies this vast energy: it is not pinned down to a point.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
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