Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an… — 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
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
Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any… — 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
If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.'… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The mind that is accumulating is frightened to die, and such a mind can never discover what is truth. But to a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“There is a marvellous Indian story of a boy who leaves home in search of truth. He goes to various teachers, walking… — 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
To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The whole point of meditation is not to follow the path laid down by thought to what it considers to be truth,… — 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
