Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
“Meditation is like going to a well, the waters of which are inexhaustible, with a pitcher that is always empty. The pitcher can never… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
