Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the first man who has descended onto earth—who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a pilgrimage.

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.

Not that I'm any good at it, but the beauty of meditation is that it liberates us from our own thoughts.

Every few months, I would take off to the U.S., which had people wondering why I went away so often. My trips were always to meet my spiritual guru, Maaji, who is based in the U.S. I would always come back with clear mind and sure footing.

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.