How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiYou may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiSpace and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiBut inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAre you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThere you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns himself with the expression of that life. What I want to do is to bring about harmony between the two extremes, for therein lies the Truth. The harmony of life is the understanding of Truth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti