U G 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
It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.
— U.G. 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
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
— U.G. 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
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
Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.
— 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
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
A mind that practices love cannot 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
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thought with its emotional and sensational content, is not love. Thought
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The fear of extinction will probably bring us together, not 'love' or feeling of brotherhood.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
You cannot experience the death of anybody
— U.G. Krishnamurti
There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
— U.G. 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
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
If I condemn something, I do not understand it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!
— U.G. Krishnamurti
As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
When you'r no longer identified with roles and labels and conventional definition of person
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Don't follow me, I'm lost.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Food, clothing and shelter - these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Life is simply a process of stimulus and response; and stimulus and response are one unitary movement.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty.
— U.G. 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
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
Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
— Jiddu 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
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
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised
— U.G. Krishnamurti
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Through a narrow window we can see only part of the sky, and not the whole vastness, the magnificence of it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation is the action of silence.
— 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
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
Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU?U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW! — U.G. Krishnamurti
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
— 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
Humility is unaware of the division of the superior and the inferior, of the Master and the pupil. As
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only freedom is the freedom from the known.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti