Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hate, Journey, Gossip

• 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

• 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".

• The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality, Political, Mind

• As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Discovery, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.14, M-y books ltd

• Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Acceptance, Denial, Authority

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “The only revolution”

• The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality, Discovery, Belief

  1970 BBC interview, 7 Dec.

• Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Book, Journey

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.262, M-y books ltd

• The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Mind, Firsts

• To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Passion, Yesterday, Mind

• Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, Personality, Authority

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

• Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Conformity, Tradition

• You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.13, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

• The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Cover Ups, Denial

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.15, Open Court Publishing

• A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Order, Inward

• When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Education, Parenting, Causes

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.9, New World Library

• When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Kind, Authority, Denied

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's 4th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 28, 1967.

• As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Authority, Intrinsic Value, Painter

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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