J.Krishnamurti Quotes

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

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

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

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.

The only freedom is the freedom from the known.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.

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'.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

To keep always in the same place means to stagnate.

To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

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.

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

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

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.

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

Only the free mind knows what Love is.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

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

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

All tradition is merely the past.

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."

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

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

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

Freedom from something is not freedom.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

The flowering of love is meditation.