Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace. — 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
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless. — 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
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your… — 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
Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn't matter… — 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
Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“We must completely set aside the idea or practice of a method. The central issue is whether the mind—it includes the heart,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — 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
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is… — 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
But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into… — 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
