Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.
To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.
That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.
Happiness comes when you are doing something because you really love to do it, and not because it gives you riches or makes you a prominent person.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
Space 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.
You 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.
It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.
The mind can only gather, accumulate, deny, assert, remember, pursue. Peace is absolutely essential, because without peace we cannot live creatively.
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love. To
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
Through a narrow window we can see only part of the sky, and not the whole vastness, the magnificence of it.
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.
If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
Real peace is as creative and as pure as war is destructive; and to find that peace, one must understand beauty.
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.