Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

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.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.

That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

This is what I am, and I am going to understand this.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

To be is to be related.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

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.

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

The world is me and I am the world.

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.