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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"If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship. You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband."

Love Life Sports
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"Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place."

Observation Observers
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"Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone."

Companionship Dies
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"Those who play a safe game die very safely."

Games Play Safe
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"It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars."

Life Hurt War
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"When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your anxiety, your joy. You do not dominate. You are not the man and she is not the woman to be used and thrown aside, a sort of breeding machine to carry on your name. When there is love, the word duty disappears."

Love You Men Names
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"A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative."

Creativity Thinking Ideas
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"Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret."

Sad Hurt Passion
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"You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower."

Being Yourself Teacher Perception
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"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

Love Change Passion
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"Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy."

Moments Conscious Uninvited
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"When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes."

Two Effort Meditation
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"It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child."

Children School Easier
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"True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is."

Powerful Thinking Being Free
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"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."

Clever Convenience Cunning
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"Be a light unto oneself"

Light Oneself
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"Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."

Love Life Truth
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"It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will."

Spiritual Order World
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"Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation."

Creative Mind Creation
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