What Are You Doing With Your Life? Quotes

“We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“The significance of life is living.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“So, what happens in the world is that everybody is fighting somebody. One man is lesser than another man. There is no love, there is no consideration, there is no thought. Each man wants to become somebody. A member of parliament wants to become the leader of the parliament, to become the prime minister, and so on and on and on. There is perpetual fighting, and our society is one constant struggle of one man against another, and this struggle is called the ambition to be something. Old people encourage you to do that. You must be ambitious, you must be something, you must marry a rich man or a rich woman, you must have the right kind of friends. So, the older generation, those who are frightened, those who are ugly in their hearts, try to make you like them, and you also want to be like them because you see the glamour of it all. When the governor comes, everybody bows...”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, What are you Doing with your Life?

“The ambitious man has never found his true vocation...”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, What are you Doing with your Life?

“We can all learn how to make a living: the art of living, however, we must each learn on our own.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“We must be aware of our conditioning and its responses, both collective and personal. It is
only when one is fully aware of the activities of the self with its contradictory desires and pursuits,
its hopes and fears, that there is a possibility of going beyond the self.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“It is only the free mind that can meet life, not the mind that is tethered to any system, to any belief, to any particular knowledge.”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“Whatever you do within the field of this consciousness, sorrow can never end.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“The greatest need and most pressing problem for every individual is to have an integrated comprehension of life”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“When we are seeking, we are always finding. Unfortunately, we will always find when we are seeking.”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“When the mind goes beyond the thought of the ‘me’, the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of happiness which is incorruptible.”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“happiness is not a thing to be pursued; it comes. But if you seek it, it will evade you.”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“Maturity is not a matter of age; it comes with understanding.”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“Life is always in movement, never static. But, our minds are static. Our minds are conditioned, held, tethered to dogma, to belief, to experience, to knowledge.”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“If we can watch the operations of our mind, then perhaps we shall be able to deal with the problems of life as they concern us.”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“That is not ambition, to do something marvelously, completely, truly according to what you think; that is not ambition; in that there is no fear.”
― J. Krishnamurti, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

“एक सुंदर सूर्यास्त का या यौनाचार का, और आप उसके बारे में सोचते हैं। उसके बारे में सोचना उस सुख को बढ़ा देता है, जैसे आपके द्वारा अनुभूत किसी पीड़ा के बारे में सोचना भय उत्पन्न कर देता है। अतएव विचार ही मनोसुख का और भय का जनक है, है न?”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, आपको अपने जीवन में क्या करना है ?

“भय का सदैव किसी न किसी चीज़ से संबंध रहता है—अन्यथा भय होता ही नहीं।”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, आपको अपने जीवन में क्या करना है ?

“जब आप असाधारण रूप से सुंदर ऐसा कुछ देखें जो जीवन और सौंदर्य से परिपूर्ण हो तब आप विचार को कभी न आने दें, क्योंकि ज्यों ही विचार उसे स्पर्श करेगा त्यों ही पुरातन होने के कारण वह इसे मनोसुख में बदल देगा, और तब इस सुख की मांग उठने लगेगी—अधिक और अधिक मात्रा में। और जब वह प्राप्त नहीं हो सकेगा तब द्वंद्व कूद पड़ेगा, भय आ डटेगा। तो क्या कुछ भी, बिना विचार के देख पाना संभव है?”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, आपको अपने जीवन में क्या करना है ?

“हम ‘जो है’ उसे बदलना या उसका रूपांतरण करना क्यों चाहते हैं? क्यों? क्योंकि हम जो हैं, वह हमें असंतुष्ट करता है इससे द्वंद्व और विक्षोभ उत्पन्न होता है, और इस स्थिति को नापसंद करते हुए हम कुछ बेहतर, कुछ श्रेष्ठतर, कुछ अधिक आदर्शपूर्ण स्थिति चाहते हैं। अब क्योंकि ‘जो है’ में पीड़ा है, बेचैनी है, द्वंद्व है, अतः हम परिवर्तन चाहते हैं।”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, आपको अपने जीवन में क्या करना है ?