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“In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be. We look to someone to tell us what is right or wrong behaviour, what is right or wrong thought, and in following this pattern our conduct and our thinking become mechanical, our responses automatic. We can observe this very easily in ourselves.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1960s, (1969)

“Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

2nd Question & Answer Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK (11 September 1971)
1970s

“Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

3rd Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (24 May 1971)
1970s

“Is there a thinker apart from thought?”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

12th Public Talk, London, UK (28 May 1961)
1960s

“Can you look at a flower without thinking?”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

4th Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23 May 1968)
1960s

“When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1st Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (26 May 1971)
1970s

“Only the free mind knows what Love is.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Speech at the University of California, Berkley, as broadcast by Pacifica Radio (4 January 1969)
1960s

“The traditional approach is from the periphery inwards, and through time, practice and renunciation, gradually to come upon that inner flower, that inner beauty and love — in fact to do everything to make oneself narrow, petty and shoddy; peel off little by little; take time; tomorrow will do, next life will do — and when at last one comes to the centre one finds there is nothing there, because one's mind has been made incapable, dull and insensitive.
Having observed this process, one asks oneself, is there not a different approach altogether — that is, is it not possible to explode from the centre?”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1960s, (1969)

“The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

3rd Public Talk, Brockwood Park, UK (5 September 1981)
1980s

“Psychological knowledge has made us dull.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

4th Public Talk, Ojai, California (10 April 1980)
1980s

“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

3rd Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (24 May 1967)
1960s

“Meditation is a state of mind in which the operation and exercise of will is not.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

3rd Public Talk, Bangalore, India (13 January 1973)
1970s

“Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Third Talk at Rajghat" (25 December 1955) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=527&chid=4846&w=%22Meditation+is+not+a+process+of+learning+how+to+meditate%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 551225, Vol. IX, p. 192 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works

“There are many for whom the Qualification of Desirelessness is a difficult one, for they feel that they are their desires — that if their distinctive desires, their likings and dislikings, are taken away from them, there will be no self left. But these are only they who have not seen the Master; in the light of His holy Presence all desire dies, but the desire to be like Him.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

§ II
1910s, At the Feet of the Master (1911)

“It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As quoted in The Eden Express https://books.google.com/books?id=o89v2m2ybCEC&q=%22well-adjusted+to+a+profoundly+sick+society%22 (1975) by Mark Vonnegut, p. 208 <br class="br">1970s

“No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1st Public Talk, Bangalore, India (30 January 1971)
1970s

“The world is me and I am the world.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

2nd Seminar Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK (14 September 1979)
1970s

“Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

2nd Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland (20 July 1971)
1970s

“Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras, conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts, sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body, find something beyond this little life. And that is what millions of so-called religious people have done through the ages, either in isolation, going off into the desert or into the mountains or a cave or wandering from village to village with a begging bowl, or, in a group, joining a monastery, forcing their minds to conform to an established pattern. But a tortured mind, a broken mind, a mind which wants to escape from all turmoil, which has denied the outer world and been made dull through discipline and conformity — such a mind, however long it seeks, will find only according to its own distortion.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1960s, (1969)

“In the denial of disorder there is order.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

4th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (19 May 1968)
1960s