Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.
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.
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.
All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
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.
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.
Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.
What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.
To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die
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.
Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.
Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.
All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.
Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.
Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.
Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
