Jiddu Krishnamurti
Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.Collection: Spiritual
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.Collection: Beauty
Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.Collection: Reality
What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.Collection: Heart
Intelligence is the seeing of what is.Collection: Spiritual
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of what is religion and not merely accept the established religions, churches, and rituals.Collection: Teaching
Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.Collection: Spiritual
The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.Collection: Pain
I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases to exist. It is then a question of a different attitude.Collection: Attitude
The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.Collection: Thinking
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.Collection: Art
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.Collection: Mean
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.Collection: Book
Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.Collection: Book
Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.Collection: Men
So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.Collection: Teacher
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.Collection: Religious
If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.Collection: Motivational
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.Collection: Mirrors
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.Collection: Discipline
Where there is fear there is aggression.Collection: Aggression
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.Collection: Truth
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.Collection: Mean
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.Collection: Spiritual
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.Collection: Love
To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.Collection: Way
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.Collection: Clever
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.Collection: Effort
Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.Collection: Teaching
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.Collection: Suffering
Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.Collection: Hate
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.Collection: Children
The flowering of love is meditation.Collection: Love
Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.Collection: Different
Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.Collection: Moving
Meditation is the action of silence.Collection: Silence
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicateCollection: Ideas
The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.Collection: Mean
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.Collection: Spiritual
I don't mind what happens.Collection: Mind
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.Collection: Spiritual
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.Collection: Love
When you are free, you have no choice.Collection: Choices
Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.Collection: Beauty
The thought is not the thing.Collection: Semantics
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction. We do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the me, love is the conflict of the me and the not-me. This conflict, this torture, is not love. Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction.Collection: Love Is
Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?Collection: Family
Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.Collection: Freedom