Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a… — 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
When the wind blows across the various continents, it does not bring with it the nationalities of the countries through which it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. — 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
“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
If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure… — 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
There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Imagination and romanticism deny love, for love is its own eternity. Man has sought through various gods, ideologies and hopes, something that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
...it is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your… — 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
“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
“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
“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I think it is always important to ask fundamental questions, but when we do ask a fundamental question, most of us are… — 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
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
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
Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no… — 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… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs. — 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
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of… — 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
