Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.

Use all of your senses.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Perception and reality are two different things.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

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.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.