Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philosopher, Speaker

Jiddu Krishnamurti was a philosopher and speaker known for his teachings on self-awareness, freedom, and the nature of thought, significantly impacting modern spirituality.

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Born
May 11, 1895
Died
February 17, 1973
Quotes
628
Rank
#51

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"Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing."

Mean Eye Meditation
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"War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder."

War Soldier Everyday
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"You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere."

Men Drunk Wish
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"There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery."

Discovery Self Solitude
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"A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove."

Love Life Truth
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"Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known."

Loss Known
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"Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom."

Ideas Way Belief
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"You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate."

Country Flower May
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"When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following."

Ideas Followers Want
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"All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you."

Spiritual Path
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"When you are free, you have no choice."

Choices
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"Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also."

Mind Gone Distraction
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"Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence."

Spiritual Jobs Awakening
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"And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction. We do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the me, love is the conflict of the me and the not-me. This conflict, this torture, is not love. Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction."

Love Is Men Space
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"This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies."

Love Life Truth
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"When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful."

Beautiful Artist Long
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"The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you"

Enemy
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"The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another."

Ideas Facts One Thing
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"Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth."

Growth Contentment Decay
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