Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.

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.

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

Can thought be silent?

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.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

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.

I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Oh, that peace may come.

Worship the Silent Space in you.

think of nothing things think of wind

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

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