Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
The only true revolution is in the mind of the individual.
Truth is a pathless land.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom.
Freedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something you take.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure, it is in decay.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education.
The individual is not the separate, the individual is the total.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
The moment we want to be something, we are no longer free.
The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe oneself without judgment.
The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness.
You must understand fear; otherwise, you cannot know love.
The moment you put a label on yourself or another, you cease to understand what you or the other is.
There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
To understand a problem is much more important than to solve it.
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
The art of listening is to be totally present with what is being said, without desire or judgment.
Tradition is the conditioned mind repeating the past.
You cannot learn from a book what you can only learn through life.
To be religious is to be sensitive to the whole tremendous process of life.
Only in love is there the ending of separation.
Meditation is not a process of attaining, but a process of understanding.
Do not condemn another because he does not see things as you do.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
In love, there is no fear.
The problem is not how to be free. It is to understand what binds the mind.
The fear of death is the fear of life.
To be free, you must drop all baggage of the known.
The real question is not what is the meaning of life, but what is the meaning of love.
Authority both creates and destroys; it does not bring about order.
Loneliness is not the absence of the other, but the absence of oneself.
The ending of time is the beginning of love.
If you do not understand yourself, you have no basis for thought.
Silence is not the absence of noise, but the absence of self.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence or struggle. It can only be realized through understanding.
To be truly alive and to fully understand, you must die to the past every day.
Love is not something you can possess; it is something that possesses you.
There is no path to truth; truth must be discovered for oneself, from moment to moment.
The mind is lazy and seeks security in knowledge, traditions, and beliefs.
To live is to be sensitive; to be sensitive is to be vulnerable.
You cannot find truth in any book, scripture, or external authority. Truth can only be found within yourself.
The pursuit of pleasure is the avoidance of pain.
Do not follow any path, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.