Indian - Philosopher | May 12, 1895 - February 17, 1986
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
FearGreatMindEvilYouGo
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
TruthMindKnowUnknownSeeClearly
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
ListeningThroughOwnOnlyDesires
To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.
LiveFreedomYourselfRevolutionYou
The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
MindSearchWillNeverMovement
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.
TruthPathPeopleOrganizationYou
When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.
NatureWorldAmericaHuman Nature
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
LifeStepConflictFindComfortOut
Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.
WarKindNeverOrganizedAgainst
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
LifeMindUnderstandingMeditation
This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.
LoveLove IsMeditationFlowering
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
AgeHeartMindSetsDullness
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