Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

Art is about paying attention.

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.