Jiddu Krishnamurti — Philosophical Quotes

301 quotes · Philosopher, Speaker

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philosopher, Speaker

Philosophical

“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".”

Two Actors Division

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philosopher, Speaker

Philosophical

“If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.”

Spiritual Flower Meditation

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Philosophical

“Truth does not belong to an individual.”

Doe Spiritual Individual

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Philosophical

“Is it possible to observe without the observer?”

Observers

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Philosophical

“Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?”

Doe Choices

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Philosophical

“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.”

Spiritual Attention Meditation

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Philosophical

“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.”

Spiritual Choices Understanding

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Philosophical

“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.”

Musician Development Students

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Philosophical

“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.”

Real Spiritual Understanding

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Philosophical

“The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.”

Simple Creativity Learning

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Philosophical

“Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.”

Ideas Self Mirrors

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Philosophical

“A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.”

Men Order Inward

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