Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

I just love human emotion and faces.

I felt calm when I was called first runner-up because I felt it was fate. But when they announced that I was Miss Universe, I had mixed emotions. I was happy because I really wanted to win but felt sad for Miss Colombia.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to our own inner world. Without insight into our internal cycles of pleasure and pain, desires and fears, there is a strong sense of being removed, apart or disconnected. When we do have an understanding of our inner lives, it provides an intuitive opening, even without words, to the ties that exist between ourselves and others.

If you can't feel then why did you kiss me? Because I can feel it here, in my heart.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

So as I think back on it now, I think it is safe to say that music is something you both hear and feel. I also realize that feelings change frequently and that for the most part, they are not a constant. They change from high to low, happy to sad, content to ecstatic and back down again. Not all music has the same purpose, but most music makes you feel "something.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.

The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to it. One is to blame others. Lay it all on somebody else; drive all blames into everyone else. The other alternative is to feel guilty about our rage and blame ourselves.