Spiritual Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth does not belong to an individual.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom is now or never.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that practices love cannot love.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

As we are - the world is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most people like to live in illusions.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

— 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

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself…

— 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

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

If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a…

— 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

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending…

— 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

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti