15 Quotes on Silence by Krishnamurti Curated

 

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Silence is a state totally outside the machinery of the mind; the mind cannot conceive of it and the mind’s attempts to reach silence are still part of noise - Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living 

The silence of the mountains has a depth the valleys have not. - The Beauty of Life – Krishnamurti’s Journal

There is a silence that has no reason whatsoever – the silence that must have been at the beginning of the world. - Krishnamurti, The Only Revolution

Space and silence are necessary because only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained and not held by experience can it come upon something totally new. - Krishnamurti, Freedom From the Known

When the mind, heart and organism are completely harmonious, there is silence. When one of the three becomes distorted, there is noise. - Krishnamurti, The Awakening of Intellig

In TOTAL attention is silence. - Krishnamurti’s Notebook

The silence of the mind is beauty in itself. - Krishnamurti, Beyond Violence

This silence of the mind is the true religious mind, and the silence of the gods is the silence of the earth. - Krishnamurti, The Only Revolution

Silence cannot repeat itself; only the brain through memory and recollection can repeat what has been – but what has been is not the actual. - Krishnamurti’s Notebook

Silence is beyond the dream, beyond the occupation of the deeper mind.- Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living 

Silence has its own movement, and it penetrates into the depths, into every corner of the mind. -Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living 

Silence is emptiness in which, and from which, all things flow and have their being. - Krishnamurti’s Notebook

Silence is infinite and the past is limited. The conditioning of the past breaks down in the fullness of silence. - Krishnamurti, The Urgency of Change

In silence alone is there that which is nameless and timeless. - Krishnamurti, The Network of Thought

Emptiness is energy, and that emptiness exists in silence. - Krishnamurti, The Ending of Time