Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Giving, Pleasure, Continuity

  Third Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India, February 14, 1971.

• Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Happiness, Freedom, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

• Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Sad, Hurt, Passion

• Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Attachment, Next Day

• Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Pain, Why Not

• Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Perception Of Beauty, Delight, Pleasure

• Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

  "The Impossible Question". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1972.

• Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Joy, Different, Pleasure

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.120, Open Court Publishing

• Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational, Journey, Sorrow

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1971). “The flight of the eagle”

• So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Pain, Pride, Pleasure

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Choiceless Awareness”, p.140, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

• The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

• 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

• What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, Eye, Doors

• If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Want, Facts, Silent

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.168, Open Court Publishing

• To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, Problem, Pleasure

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's third public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24, 1967.

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