Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer… — 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
But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of… — 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
One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our… — 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
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
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease… — 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
