A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. — 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
If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when… — 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
What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want… — 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
If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the… — 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
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush… — 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
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover… — 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
“How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only… — 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
“One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Do you know what intelligence is? It is the capacity, surely, to think freely, without fear, without a formula, so that you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Fear is always in relation to something; it does not exist by itself. There is fear of what happened yesterday in relation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.” — 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
