Krishnamurti Quotes
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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.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
To be free from violence means everything to me. It is more important to me than sex, food, position, for this thing is corrupting me.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Can you look at a flower without thinking?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only the free mind knows what Love is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Achieve order within yourself ... an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment ... in the daily life of the home and the office.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most people like to live in illusions.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you see that you are a bundle of memories and words, the restless monkey comes to an end.
— Krishnamurti
Silence is the break between two thoughts/noises.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
virtue can flower only when there is freedom.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Those who play a safe game die very safely.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth is more in the process than in the result.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A mind that practices love cannot love.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The strange thing was that you felt such a great sense of affection, not for anything or for anyone, but the fullness of what may be called love.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
As we are - the world is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
He who has forgotten his childhood and lost sympathy with the children is not a man who can teach them or help them.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Is there a thinker apart from thought?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Peace can come only when there is love.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love. To
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The fear of extinction will probably bring us together, not 'love' or feeling of brotherhood.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
You cannot experience the death of anybody
— U.G. Krishnamurti
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all ...
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom is now or never.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
To be is to be related.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
No one can describe reality. You must experience it, see it, feel the whole atmosphere of it — Jiddu Krishnamurti
To understand the whole operation of one's own mind requires a great deal of insight, a great deal of inquiry without condemnation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Be simple.. .and don't try to become something or to capture some experience.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The difference between me and you is ... that I don't mind what happens.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thought with its emotional and sensational content, is not love. Thought
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only freedom is the freedom from the known.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Humility is unaware of the division of the superior and the inferior, of the Master and the pupil. As
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If I condemn something, I do not understand it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU?U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW! — U.G. Krishnamurti
The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self expansion in any form, whether through wealth or through virtue, is a process of conflict, causing antagonism and confusion. A
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation is the action of silence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
