Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

Use all of your senses.

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.