Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Can thought be silent?

The reality is that I am the Teacher.

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

One is never afraid of the unknown one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

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

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity.

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

You must be a light unto yourself.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom.

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom.

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.