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
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is… — 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
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher;… — 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 want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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
“Freedom is not an idea; a philosophy written about freedom is not freedom. Either one is free or one is not. One… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want… — 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
“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
“We see throughout the world extremes of poverty and riches, abundance and at the same time starvation; we have class distinction and… — 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
