Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

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

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

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

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

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

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

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.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

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

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

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

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

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Fear is nonacceptance of what is.

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.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.