U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

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

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.

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.

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

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

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

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

Truth is a pathless land.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

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

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

Where there is fear there is aggression.

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

Is there a thinker apart from thought?

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

As we are - the world is.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

You cannot experience the death of anybody

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

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.

To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.

Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind

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