The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth. — 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
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are… — 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
“Do observe what is actually taking place within yourself and outside yourself in the competitive culture in which you live with its… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“It is so much easier to throw oneself into social and political activity than to understand life as a whole; to be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Why do we go through the struggle to be educated? Is it merely in order to pass some examinations and get a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, without a beat of the wing, just… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Can we change our life? To have no conflict at all in our life, because conflict is part of violence —is that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love.… — 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