To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — 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
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is… — 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
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have… — 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
Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means… — 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
