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Krishnamurti Quotes of the Day

March 2010

01 To pursue the known in different forms is a game of self-deception, and then the meditator is the master, there is not the simple act of meditation.

02 There was no observer listening, pitying, and walking behind them. He was not part of them out of love and pity; he was them.

03 Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom.

04 As long as we go on climbing the ladder of success, there will always be the sick and the unfed.

05 As long as you think time and thought are necessary, in the psychological world, in the world of the self, in the world of psyche, in the world of inside the skin, then you will be perpetually in fear.

06 Everything we see, every thought we have, shapes our mind; whatever you think now, whatever you have thought in the past and whatever you are going to think in the future, it all shapes the mind.

07 We all need a quiet mind, a peaceful mind, an absolutely silent mind without a murmur of thought. Is that possible? Possible means we don't know.

08 Conflict at any level, at any depth, indicates immaturity.

09 That is the nature of belief: taking for granted, accepting something to be true when your own enquiry, your own vitality, energy, has not found out, you believe.

10 Have the teachings attributed to the great teachers - Christ, Buddha, Hermes and others - any value for the attainment of the direct path to truth?

11 There is no essential difference between the old and the young, for both are slaves to their own desires and gratifications.