Awakening Quotes - Page 15

• Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Lying, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.88, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Mean, Simplicity

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Agreement, Punishment

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Struggle, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.87, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Meditation, Attention

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• As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Long, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Discipline, Effort

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• A mind that practices love cannot love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Practice, Mind

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• Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Should, Pursue

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2000). “Choiceless Awareness”, p.76, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Love Is, Thinking

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reality, Discipline

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• Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.89, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reactions, Significance

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.24, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Thinking, Perspective

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• Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Becoming, Moments

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• What is needed, is an awakening.

  Terence McKenna

  Needed

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• Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

  Tommy Chong

  Spiritual, Artist, World

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

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• Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

  Amit Ray

  Infinite

  "Meditation: Insights and Inspiration". Book by Amit Ray, July 4, 2010.

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• A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to see who they truly are and what they have always been-beings with an eternal past and a glorious future.

  Betty Eadie

  Spiritual, Eye, Past

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• The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Education, Adventure, Feelings

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• Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!

  Raymond S. Moore

  Children, Home, School

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• You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

  Karen Katafiasz

  Grieving, Looks, Emptiness

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• On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Children, Block, Creativity

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• No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.

  Nick Offerman

  Morning, Attitude, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 31, 2012.

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