It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living; To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
More Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
-
-
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
Those who play a safe game die very safely.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI -
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI