One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our… — 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
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The demand to be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever… — 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
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or… — 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
“Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to… — 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
“There can be fundamental and lasting change in the world, there can be love and intelligent fulfillment, only when you wake up… — 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
“If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of being alone? Because you… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
