I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth… — 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
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
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something,… — 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
After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and… — 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
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate… — 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
