You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means… — 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
Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your… — 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
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
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day,… — 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
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time… — 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
