U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.

That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

This is what I am, and I am going to understand this.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

To be is to be related.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

The world is me and I am the world.

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Can thought be silent?

The reality is that I am the Teacher.

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

One is never afraid of the unknown one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.