Jiddu Krishnamurti
Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?Collection: Hurt
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.Collection: Clever
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.Collection: Together
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.Collection: Want
The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.Collection: Men
Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.Collection: Heart
To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.Collection: Responsibility
Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.Collection: Clever
To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.Collection: Wall
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.Collection: Semantics
The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.Collection: Love
As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.Collection: Long
Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.Collection: Spiritual
The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.Collection: Real
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.Collection: Thinking
Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.Collection: Evil
Only the free mind knows what Love is.Collection: Life
The enemy is not the other, the enemy is youCollection: Enemy
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.Collection: Spiritual
To keep always in the same place means to stagnate.Collection: Mean
All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.Collection: Spiritual
Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.Collection: Meditation
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.Collection: Spiritual
To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.Collection: Meditation Practice
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.Collection: Spiritual
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.Collection: Healing
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.Collection: Revolution
Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.Collection: Mirrors
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.Collection: Ideas
As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.Collection: Spiritual
And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.Collection: Ideas
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.Collection: Sick
There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.Collection: Accepting
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.Collection: Book
To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.Collection: Thinking
To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.Collection: Lying
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.Collection: Thinking
You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.Collection: Love You
The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.Collection: World
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.Collection: Spiritual
The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.Collection: Giving
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.Collection: Lying
As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.Collection: Long
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.Collection: Self
The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.Collection: Spiritual
I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.Collection: Blind Belief
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.Collection: Love
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.Collection: Order
Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.Collection: Yoga