From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I… — 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
Does life continue beyond the door? The fulfilment of life is not annihilation - on the contrary - I am much more… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It does not matter what you call the gaoler so long as he has the key that will open the door of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
...it is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Imagination and romanticism deny love, for love is its own eternity. Man has sought through various gods, ideologies and hopes, something that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“You are going to be educated. I don’t know why, but you are going to be. And then what? Lead a comfortable… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love.… — 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