When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has… — 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
