15 Quotes On…
Krishnamurti’s teachings address every aspect of life, from love and fear to freedom and the nature of thought. This collection of ‘15 Quotes on…’ explores key themes from different angles, offering insights into our own lives. Each page contains short quotes on a specific topic, together with the context of the quote in a book extract.
This growing collection will expand monthly, covering more than 100 topics in total.
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Achievement
‘Any achievements, whether individual or collective, becomes a means to power.’
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Ambition
‘Ambition darkens the mind.’
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Anonymity & Creativity
‘There can be no creativity if there is a motive behind it.’
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Authority
‘When there is clarity, there is an end to authority.’
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Awareness
‘Out of choiceless awareness, perhaps the door will open and you will know that dimension in which there is no conflict and no time.’
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Change
‘Change now completely, change with great passion.’
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Conditioning
‘We are not aware of our conditioning, and until we are, we can only produce further conflict and confusion.’
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Death
‘If we can know what death is while we are alive, we shall have no problem.’
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Ending
‘Everything must end for the new to be.’
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Fear
‘Do I see the truth and the fact that moving away from fear increases fear?’
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Freedom
‘Freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.’
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Good and Evil
‘Good is not the opposite of evil; it comes into being only when that which is evil has utterly ceased.’
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Humility
‘Complete simplicity goes with humility, not in things or possessions but in the quality of being.’
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Ideals
‘An ideal is a marvellous and respectable escape from the actual.’
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Listening
‘There is a different way of living, something totally new; which means listening completely.’
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Love
‘Without love, do what you will, be as clever as you like, you will solve nothing.’
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The Mind
‘Without love, do what you will, be as clever as you like, you will solve nothing.’
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Nationalism
‘Nationalism is a process of isolation, an outcome of the search for power. It cannot bring about peace in the world.’
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Order
‘Order is a living thing, not mechanical, and order is virtue.’
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Problems
‘The mind would be lost without the worry of problems. It feeds on problems.’
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Religion
‘Religion is the total way of life; it is the understanding of truth, which is not a projection of the mind.’
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The Self
‘We are afraid of the total destruction of the known, the ground of the self, the ‘me’ and the ‘mine’.
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Silence
‘In silence alone is there that which is nameless and timeless.’
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Thought
‘There is no freedom through the ways of thought and the known.’
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Will
‘Will is the most destructive thing, for will is based on pleasure and desire, not on free joy.’