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
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour. — 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
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
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing… — 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 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
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
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it… — 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
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely… — 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
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that… — 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
A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers,… — 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
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
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
Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's… — 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
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious,… — 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
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
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
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
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
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
“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
When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
