Understanding Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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