Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

The significance of life is living.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

Do it or don't do it but get on with it.

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

Truth is a pathless land.

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?

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

As we are - the world is.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.