You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the… — 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
A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Image
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
