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
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the… — 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
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
And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being… — 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
Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. — 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
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself? — 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
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind… — 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
