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
I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true. — 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
If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do not think that you can try and systematize education for the whole world. I would try experiments in small communities… — 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
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
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. — 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
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind… — 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
