I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — 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
If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate… — 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
Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities -… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give… — 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
