When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — 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
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“But self-knowledge cannot be imposed, understanding cannot be compelled; and if this is a vital problem to you and me, to the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. There is a vast strength… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship… — 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
Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth,… — 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
