“But you see, most of us are concerned with revolt within the prison; we want better food, a little more light, a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Probably you consider the body is not at all important. I’ve seen you eat, and you eat as if you were feeding… — 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 society in which we live is the result of our psychological state. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average… — 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
“Woke up this morning, rather early, with a sense of a mind that had penetrated into unknown depths. It was as though… — 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
“Words entangle. But if one can understand the whole significance of the ways of one's thought, the ways of our desires and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept,… — 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
It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace. — 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
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
“Meditation is the uncovering of this whole process of becoming and being—the negation of becoming in order to be. All this can… — 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
Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a… — 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
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine,… — 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
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
