“Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love.” — 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
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
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through… — 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
“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
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
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
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
Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“To know the mind, must you not be aware of its activities? The mind is only experience, not just the immediate, but… — 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
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“A mind that is free of any distortion is really the true religious mind, not a mind that goes to the temple,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“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
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
“Q: I don’t really know what it means to live beautifully. In fact, I really know nothing except a few mechanical things… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The mind is a current, very deep at the centre and very shallow at the periphery—like the river that has a strong… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Q: Why is it we all so desperately want to be loved? Krishnamurti: Because we are so desperately empty, lonely. Q: But… — 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 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
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict. — 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
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what… — 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… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. — 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
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
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
“The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is… — 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
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
When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our… — 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
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
