U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.

Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

The description is not the described.

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

The thought is not the thing.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.