Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

The observer is the observed.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

I don't mind what happens.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Doesn't becoming imply time?

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

You are the world and the world is you.

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

There is no tranquility in ideas.

Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.