Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

A quiet mind cureth all.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.

Thought will not work except in silence.

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Choosing stillness in the midst of chaos is the path toward living in peace.