J.Krishnamurti Quotes

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

If you see that you are a bundle of memories and words, the restless monkey comes to an end.

Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

You must be a light unto yourself.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom.

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

The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom.

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

... it is because we have acquired technical knowledge without understanding the total process of life that technology has become a means of destroying ourselves

Conflict is the essence of the self.

The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

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

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'.

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

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