If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom… — 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
War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“To be free from violence means everything to me. It is more important to me than sex, food, position, for this thing… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“So freedom lies, not in trying to become something different, nor in doing whatever you happen to feel like doing, nor in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Solitude is one thing and being alone is another. Solitude can be isolation, an escape, an unwanted thing; but to be alone… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Freedom is not an idea; a philosophy written about freedom is not freedom. Either one is free or one is not. One… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do… — 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
