Krishnamurti @K__Quotes

Authentic daily quotes by J. Krishnamurti, selected by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Sources - Feb: Collected Works 4, March: Can Conflict End? © KFA/KFT kfoundation.org Hampshire, England Joined May 2010

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19 hours ago

What is important is not to read more, discuss more, or to attend more talks, but rather to be conscious of the motives, the intentions, the deceptions of one’s own mind.

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2 days ago

We are all seeking success; we want a result.

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3 days ago

There must be the capacity to see the truth in a flash – and that very perception will cleanse the mind of the past in an instant.

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4 days ago

A man who cultivates humility is never humble, any more than the man who practises non-violence ceases to be violent.

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5 days ago

Without the perfume of true religion, life has very little meaning.

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6 days ago

All our endeavours to be loving or brotherly is actually a pose, a mask. However beautiful the mask may be, behind it there is nothing.

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7 days ago

One must work furiously to find out what is truly religious.

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a week ago

Any economic or social revolution only breeds the need for further reform, and that is an endless process. Real revolution is inward, and it comes into being without the mind seeking it.

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a week ago

Most of us identify ourselves with something – with the family, with the country, with an idea, with a belief – hoping thereby to forget our petty little selves.

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a week ago

We think that only the few can understand, or that there is only one son of God, and the rest of us are just… whatever we are. We accept such an idea because in ourselves we are very lazy.

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2 weeks ago

Some of us have seen the stupidity of dogmas, beliefs and organised religions, and have set them aside. We fully realise the importance of the good life, the balanced, sane, unexaggerated life.

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2 weeks ago

Some people have a certain spontaneous virtue, which is not the emptiness of cultivated virtue; they have a certain quietness, gentleness and a sense of proportion; they lead a sane, balanced life and do not accept the extremes.

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2 weeks ago

It would be a waste of time and energy if we regarded these talks merely as intellectual stimulation or an entertainment of new ideas. It would be like ploughing a field everlastingly, without ever sowing.

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2 weeks ago

Why have we separated death from living, and why does the mind cling to continuity?

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2 weeks ago

Not knowing what lies beyond, the mind is afraid of death, so it begins to invent ideas and theories – reincarnation, resurrection – or it goes back and lives in the past

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2 weeks ago

Why do we divide life and death? Is living separate from death, or is death part of living?

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2 weeks ago

We are trained from childhood to compete, to be cruel, to fit into society. As long as we are educated to fit into society, we will invariably be cruel because society is based on violence.