Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, Taken, Cells

• Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, Self, Two

• We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, People, Meditation

• Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Memories, Yesterday

  Fifth Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland, August 8, 1971.

• Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, Matter, Insight

• Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not
  enslaved by tradition and memory.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, Thinking, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1967). “Life Ahead”

• The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Pain, Memories

• How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Memories, Moving

  "A Wholly Different Way of Living". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1970.

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