Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Silence, Meditation

• If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ideas, Silence, Listening

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

• Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Book, Reading, Silence

  "Talks by Krishnamurti in Europe 1962 (Verbatim Report) London, Saanen". Jiddu Krishnamurti's seventh public talk in London, jkrishnamurti.org. June 19, 1962.

• It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Rain, Self, Expression

• Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beauty, Moving, Silence

• Meditation is the action of silence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Silence, Meditation, Acting

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.54, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

• Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Silence, Brain, Movement

• It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Silence

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.91, M-y books ltd

• Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.50, Rajpal & Sons

• Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Silence, Difficult, Silence Is

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1962-1963): A Psychological Revolution”, p.211, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin