World Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You are the world and the world is you.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

As we are - the world is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The world is me and I am the world.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot…

— 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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am…

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I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone…

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This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the…

— 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