10 quotes club: Jiddu Krishnamurti

1. "A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."

2. "Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens."

3. "To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself."

4. "It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper."

5. "Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence."

6. "You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life."

7. "Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion."

8. "When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia."

9. "So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."

10. "A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others."

Jiddu Krishnamurti