Jiddu Krishnamurti
The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.Collection: Firsts
Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine.Collection: Christian
In the denial of that disorder there is order.Collection: Order
Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.Collection: Environment
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.Collection: Spiritual
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.Collection: Spiritual
If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.Collection: Good Luck
Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.Collection: Joy
War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.Collection: War
It does not matter what you call the gaoler so long as he has the key that will open the door of your prison! Similarly, as I have the key to release Life from its prison, it does not matter in the least what you call either the key or myself. I am not concerned about the title.Collection: Keys
If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.Collection: War
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.Collection: Spiritual
When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit.Collection: Reality
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.Collection: Life
The description is not the described.Collection: Description
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.Collection: Real
When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.Collection: Truth