Jiddu Krishnamurti
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.Collection: Men
If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?Collection: Powerful
Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.Collection: Children
When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.Collection: Study
All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.Collection: Life
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.Collection: Memories
Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.Collection: Hate
While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.Collection: Exercise
The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.Collection: Learning
You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.Collection: Mind
I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."Collection: Men
The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is love personal or impersonal, is intelligence yours, mine or somebody else? If it is yours or mine then it is not intelligence, or love, or goodness. If goodness is an affair of the individual or of the collective, according to one's particular preference or decision, then it is no longer goodness.Collection: Life
It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.Collection: Hands
Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?Collection: Mind
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.Collection: Freedom
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.Collection: Knowledge
If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.Collection: Reality
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.Collection: Love
Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?Collection: Choices
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.Collection: Dull
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.Collection: Names
All tradition is merely the past.Collection: Past
The world is me and I am the world.Collection: World
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.Collection: Spiritual
I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole.Collection: Responsibility
Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.Collection: Sleep
I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things.Collection: Children
Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.Collection: Thinking
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.Collection: Confusion
Without freedom, there is no creation.Collection: Creativity
It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.Collection: Spiritual
We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.Collection: Drink
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.Collection: Inspirational
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.Collection: Morality
There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically.Collection: Spiritual
A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.Collection: Fear
While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.Collection: School
Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars.Collection: Religious
Can you look at a flower without thinking?Collection: Flower
It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.Collection: Mean
Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.Collection: Country
You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.Collection: Standards
Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.Collection: Soul
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.Collection: Love
We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.Collection: Fear
Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.Collection: Struggle
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.Collection: Country
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.Collection: Spiritual
If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.Collection: Desire