U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

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

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

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

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

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

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

Don't follow me, I'm lost.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.