Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
-
-
Be a light unto oneself,
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees ‘what is’ and learns from ‘what was’.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI