U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

There is no tranquility in ideas.

Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.