Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Understanding

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When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Christian, Spiritual, Country

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Opportunity, Views, Giving

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Heart, Love Is, Generosity

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Life, Truth

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.105, Penguin Books India
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Inspirational, Life

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.49, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Inspirational, Life
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Life, Teacher
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Spiritual, Choices, Understanding
I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem. But, the moment you cease to struggle and let the problem tell you the whole story, give all its significance - then there is understanding, which means, obviously, that to understand, the mind must be quiet.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Struggle, Mean, Thinking

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Lying, Understanding, Important

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding Knowledge, Addiction, Doe

Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.194, M-y books ltd
In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Life, Children
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding
To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wall, Order, Differences
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Book, Blessing

"Commentaries on Living".
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Choices, Meditation, Understanding

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Unique, Understanding, Solitude

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thinking, Understanding, Bases
You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

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Understanding, Doe, Want

Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Commentaries on Living - first series: A Study Book Of The Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.171, Krishnamurti Foundation America (PublishDrive)
When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Two, Effort, Meditation

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding, Levels, Action

"The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Powerful, Believe, Thinking

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1967). “Life Ahead”
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

War, Ambition, Understanding

"Education and the Significance of Life".
Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mirrors, Self, Ideas
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jobs, Men, Understanding

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