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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"Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal."

Past Reality Mind
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"But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds."

Healing Clouds Orange
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"Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed."

Spiritual Light Meditation
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"You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free."

Envy Overcoming Noble
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"What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable."

Heart Meditation Mind
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"The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself."

Spiritual World Transformation
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"You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and cruelties, and then you will find out what is true. Why do you want philosophies?"

Love Life Christian
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"You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history."

Order Giving Watches
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"It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline."

Spiritual Discipline Effort
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"When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?"

Ideas People Groups
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"Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be."

Spiritual Love Is Ideas
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"Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die"

Life Dying Frightened
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"The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die."

Insecure Love Is Men
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"Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it."

Knowing Causes Helping
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"Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind"

Responsibility Doe Mankind
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"You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow."

Standards Lays
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"There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically."

Spiritual Country Believe
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