Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.

Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.

Meditation is practical, simple, and very useful. Taking even 30 seconds to rest your attention on your breath instead of following the cycle of your thoughts can bring you back to you in a heart beat.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

I think it is really important that I am always listening.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.