Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.Collection: Spiritual
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.Collection: Love
My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt.Collection: Different
Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.Collection: Children
To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.Collection: Love
As we are - the world is.Collection: Spiritual
What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.Collection: Tomorrow
Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.Collection: Ego
Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.Collection: Yoga
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.Collection: Jobs
I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there.Collection: Teacher
To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.Collection: Important
Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?Collection: Mean
There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.Collection: Long
Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.Collection: Acquiring Knowledge
People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."Collection: People
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?Collection: Spiritual
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.Collection: Suffering
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.Collection: Mean
Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.Collection: Spiritual
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.Collection: Running
To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.Collection: Life
You can only hear clearly when you sit quietly, when you give your attention. Nor can you have order if you are not free to watch, if you are not free to listen, if you are not free to be considerate. This problem of freedom and order is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in life. It is a very complex problem. It needs to be thought over much more than mathematics, geography, or history.Collection: Order
Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.Collection: Spiritual
A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.Collection: Men
Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankindCollection: Responsibility
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.Collection: Love
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.Collection: Companionship
The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?Collection: Desire
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.Collection: Freedom
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.Collection: Heart
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.Collection: Choices
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.Collection: Love
The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.Collection: Wise
But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.Collection: Humanity
The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.Collection: Spiritual
I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.Collection: Love
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.Collection: Essentials
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.Collection: Love
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.Collection: Giving
We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.Collection: Feelings
Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.Collection: Men
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.Collection: Ideas
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.Collection: Truth
You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate.Collection: Country
To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.Collection: Self
If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.Collection: Love
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.Collection: Helping
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.Collection: Self