Life Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The significance of life is living.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The flowering of love is meditation.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The observer is the observed.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only the free mind knows what Love is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is more in the process than in the result.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“A profession is only a part of life; but there are also those parts which are hidden, subtle and mysterious.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the wind blows across the various continents, it does not bring with it the nationalities of the countries through which it…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“a human being living an ordinary everyday life in this brutal, violent, ruthless world – a world which is becoming more and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“IN THE LIFE we generally lead there is very little solitude. Even when we are alone our lives are crowded by so…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Can we change our life? To have no conflict at all in our life, because conflict is part of violence —is that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Woe beside those who live by way of examples! Life is not with them. If you live according to an example, you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Do you know what intelligence is? It is the capacity, surely, to think freely, without fear, without a formula, so that you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Do observe what is actually taking place within yourself and outside yourself in the competitive culture in which you live with its…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“But we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Why is it that you don’t know what to do when there is desire? I’ll tell you why. Because this rigid decision…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti