The Unforgettable Words From Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher whose reflections left a lasting legacy. This worldly man did not identify with any nationality, religion, social class or race. His philosophy was one of peace and breaking down boundaries.
Krishnamurti received the UN Peace Medal in 1994. He died at the age of 90, but his work has been translated into many languages, and he continues to be very influential.
Below is a list of some of the most important quotes from Krishnamurti. Read on and reflect!
1. “Of the two options, always choose the most generous.”
2. “We can only learn if we listen. And listening is a silent act; only a calm but extraordinarily active mind can learn. ”
3. “Only those who are not caught by the community can affect the fundamental.”
4. “Have you noticed that inspiration comes when you are not looking for it? It comes when you have stopped having expectations, when the mind and heart are at peace. ”
5. “Freedom is vital to love; not the freedom of an uprising, the freedom to do what you want or the freedom to openly or secretly give in to your desires, but rather the freedom that comes with understanding. ”
6. “The key to giving peace to the world lies in daily conduct.”
7. “Be careful of the man who says he knows.”
8. “Fear corrupts intelligence and is one of the causes of selfishness.”
9. “When the mind is completely silent, both on a superficial level and a deep level; the unknown, the immeasurable, can be uncovered. “
10. “Giving something a name limits us to putting it in a category, and we think we understand it; we do not look at it more closely. But if we do not baptize it, we are obligated to look at it. Or rather, we approach a flower, or whatever it is, with a sense of novelty, with a new way of looking at it: we look at it as if we had never looked at it before. ”
11. “When you plant wheat once, you will reap the harvest once. When you plant a tree once, you will reap the harvest ten times. When you build a village, you will reap the harvest a hundred times over. ”
12. “Life is an extraordinary mystery – not the kind of mystery you find in books or the kind that people talk about, but rather a mystery that you discover yourself; and that’s why it’s so important that you all understand small, limited, trivial things, and go beyond all that. ”
13. “When you are aware of everything, you become sensitive, and to be sensitive is to have an inner perception of beauty, it is to have a sense of beauty.”
14. “Truth is what sets you free, not the effort to be free.”
15. “Freedom consists in recognizing your limitations.”
16. “Wisdom is not to gather memories, but total vulnerability to the truth.”
17. “No one can put themselves in a psychological prison, they are already in one.”
18. “Avoiding a problem will only reinforce it, and during this process one abandons self-understanding and freedom.”
19. “Nationalism is a process of isolation that gives rise to war, misery and destruction.”
20. “Intelligence is questioning methods.”
21. “Love gives of itself just as a flower gives of its fragrance.”
22. “Without meditation, life lacks fragrance, love.”
23. “They must insist that they receive a class of education that stimulates them to think freely and without fear, which helps them to explore, to understand; they should demand it of their teachers. “
24. “A religious mind is a light unto itself.”
25. “You do not understand first and act later. When we understand, absolute understanding is action. ”
26. “This means that they should observe themselves, that they should notice more and more influences that want to control and dominate them; it means that they should never accept anything thoughtless, but rather question, investigate and find themselves in a state of rebellion. “
27. “The simple act of observing requires tremendous clarity; otherwise it is not possible to observe. “
28. “For political and industrial reasons, discipline has become an important factor in the current social structure, and it is because of our desire to have psychological security that we accept and exercise various forms of discipline.”
29. When we say ‘I do not know’, what do we mean?
Which of these quotes from Krishnamurti do you like best?
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