Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. — 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
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them… — 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
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
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — 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
There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally. — 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
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower. — 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
Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is ... Matter and energy are interrelated. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. — 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
