Doubt brings about lasting understanding; doubt is not an end in itself. What is true is revealed only through doubt, through questioning the many illusions, traditional values and ideals. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “To know is to be ignorant…”
To know is to be ignorant. Not to know is the beginning of wisdom. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “Those who are inwardly alone…”
Those who are inwardly alone, whose minds and hearts are free from the ache of loneliness, they are real people, for they can discover for themselves what reality is, they can receive that which is timeless. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “To meditate is to transcend time…”
To meditate is to transcend time. Time is the distance that thought travels in its achievements. The traveling is always along the old path covered over with a new coating, new sights, but always the same road, leading nowhere — except to pain and sorrow. It is only when the mind transcends time that truth ceases to be an abstraction. […]
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “The truth is in everyday life…”
The religious life is not on the other side of the river. It is on this side, the side of the whole travail of man. The truth is in everyday life. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “A mind that is completely discontented…”
A mind that is completely discontented can jump into reality — not a mind that is content, not a mind that is respectable, hedged about by beliefs. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “It is not so easy, merely to wish and you cross…”
It is not so easy, merely to wish and you cross. For this it is indispensable, with a constantly active consciousness. First of all with extremely great intensity to obtain the intentional crystallization in oneself of the data for engendering in one’s common presence an unquenchable impulse of desire for such a crossing, and then will follow a long inner […]
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “Such is the nature of man…”
Such is the nature of man, that for your first gift, he prostrates himself; for your second, kisses your hand; for the third, fawns; for the fourth, just nods his head once; for the fifth, becomes too familiar; for the sixth, insults you; and for the seventh, sues you because he was not given enough. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – […]
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “He wishes a fulfillment for beings in the universe..”
God is good, and He wishes a fulfillment for beings in the universe that they also may enjoy bliss and become sons — that they may enter into the psychology of the Being who created the World. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
G. I. Gurdjieff Quote – “Something is wrong with that framework…”
If there are phenomena, the reality of which we cannot deny but which cannot be fitted into our accepted conceptual framework, then something is wrong with that framework and we must look for another. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
