Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not.… — 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
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality,… — 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
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can… — 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
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The mind that is accumulating is frightened to die, and such a mind can never discover what is truth. But to a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It… — 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
You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.'… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to… — 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
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
