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
Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is… — 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
What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you… — 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
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. — 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
To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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
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
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind… — 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
