Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

The description is not the described.

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

The thought is not the thing.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

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.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

Truth does not belong to an individual.

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

Freedom is now or never.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Meditation is the action of silence.

To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

Each breath is transforming me into thine image.

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?