Self Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti