Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for ...

If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing...

You must be a light unto yourself.

Patriotism, whether it is of the Western kind, or of the Eastern kind, is the same, a poison in huma...

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any ...

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You canno...

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its conten...

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around o...

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to f...

To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the pr...

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our...

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, wh...

You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the pian...

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking l...

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, ...

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really impor...

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, c...

Discipline does not mean suppression and control nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It ...

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not ...

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfo...

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level...

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with e...

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is no...

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a t...

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, fo...

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we ...

Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life. We have lived forty or sixty years, have gone...

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also...

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its ro...

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowi...

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them.....

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on pe...

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it beco...

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness,...

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is u...

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and...

If I am all the time measuring myself against you, struggling to be like you, then I am denying what...

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is jo...

One is never afraid of the unknown one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. ...

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi...

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong b...

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

To put it differently, as long as mind and heart are caught up in want, in desire, there must be emp...

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a fr...

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not s...

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear....

Happy is the man who is nothing.

do it or don't do it but get on with it...

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathem...

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without f...

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this...

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in...

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help...

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to g...

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of educati...

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficienc...

To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot proj...

So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if ...

Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discip...

Seeing everything that goes on in your daily life, your daily activities - when you pick up a pen, w...

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, ...

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

any movement which is worth while, any action which has any deep significance, must begin with each ...

So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colo...

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are...

Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mindis free of society. One must become poor...

You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encoura...

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan t...

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a fr...

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world w...

we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is ...

We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy...

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take ...

One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such fre...

One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, withou...

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, ...

But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is no...