U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

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

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.

Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

When you are free, you have no choice.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

The significance of life is living.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

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

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

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.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.