This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“What is important is to consider life not as an inner and outer, but as a whole, as a total undivided movement.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“We want to make life permanent, but in doing so we go against nature, and there lies our pain. Only the mind… — 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
You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“a human being living an ordinary everyday life in this brutal, violent, ruthless world – a world which is becoming more and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the… — 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
“Solitude is one thing and being alone is another. Solitude can be isolation, an escape, an unwanted thing; but to be alone… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Q: I don’t really know what it means to live beautifully. In fact, I really know nothing except a few mechanical things… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to… — 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
“Why is it that you don’t know what to do when there is desire? I’ll tell you why. Because this rigid decision… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Routine and habit are our everyday life. Some are aware of their habits, others are not. If one becomes aware of habits—the… — 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
“Krishnamurti admonishes us that “Meditation is not something different from daily life … it is the seeing of what is and going… — 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
