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The Flight of the Eagle QUOTES

The Flight of the Eagle QUOTES

1 " To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

2 " Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

3 " But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

4 " To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of oneself neither introspectively nor analytically, but actually be aware of oneself as one is and see if it is at all possible to be entirely free of all those issues that seem to clog the mind.
To explore, there must be freedom, not at the end, but right at the beginning. Unless one is free one cannot explore, investigate or examine.
Two things are essential: freedom and the act of learning. One cannot learn about oneself unless one is free, free so that one can observe, not according to any pattern, formula or concept, but actually observe oneself as one is. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

5 " Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody "I love you", when you are considering your children, when you educate them to become soldiers, to kill, to be nationalized, worshipping the flag, educating them to enter into this trap of the modern world; watching all that, realizing your part in it, all that is part of meditation. And when you so meditate you will find in it an extraordinary beauty; you will act rightly at every moment; and if you do not act rightly at a given moment it does not matter, you will pick it up again - you will not waste time in regret. Meditation is part of life, not something different from life. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

6 " We human beings are committed to a way of life that leads to war and yet at the same time we want peace, we want freedom; but it is peace only as an idea, as an ideology; and at the same time everything we do conditions us. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

7 " Dying is part of living. You cannot love without dying, dying to everything which is not love, dying to all ideals which are the projection of your own demands, dying to all the past, to the experience, so that you know what love means and therefore what living means. So living, loving and dying are the same thing, which consists in living wholly, completely, now. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

8 " One can see very clearly how the conditioning begins, how two thousand years of propaganda in the Christian world has made it worship its culture, while the same kind of thing has been going on in the East. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

9 " It begins at school and you go through life repeating what others have said. You are therefore secondhand human beings. How can such a secondhand human being find out something that is original, that is true? It is very important to understand what conditioning is and to go into this very deeply; as you look at it you have the energy to break down all those conditionings that hold the mind. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

10 " Questioner: Sir, are you crazy? "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

11 " when we have the capacity to play the violin, we are that violin. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

12 " I remember once travelling in a car, in India, with a group of people. I was sitting in front with the driver, there were three behind who were talking about awareness, wanting to discuss with me what awareness is. The car was going very fast. A goat was in the road and the driver did not pay much attention and ran over the poor animal. The gentlemen behind were discussing what is awareness; they never knew what had happened! "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

13 " Learning is always in the active present, it is not the result of having accumulated knowledge; learning is a process, an action, which is always in the present. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

14 " learning is in the very action itself and therefore there is never an accumulation as knowledge. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

15 " The eagle in its flight does not leave a mark; the scientist does. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle