The religious man is he who does not belong to any religion, to any nation, to any race, who is inwardly completely alone, in a state of not-knowing, and for him the blessing of the sacred comes into being.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Learning
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Belief
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Life and Living
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Freedom
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Worry
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It’s the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: The Poor, Poverty
Learning is the very essence of humility, the learning from everything and from everybody. There is no hierarchy in learning.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely, the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears, when you give your whole attention to it.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion is the frozen thought of men out of which they build temples.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the cultivation of the mind, our emphasis should be not on concentration, but on attention. Concentration is a process of forcing the mind to narrow down to a point, whereas attention is without frontiers.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious, of which you are not aware. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy. You want to be consciously happy: the moment you are consciously happy, happiness is gone.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So 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.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can’t go very far if you don’t begin very near.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Self-improvement, Progress
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Tradition
When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Feelings, Listening
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do not think about yourself,
but be aware of the thought, emotion,
or action that makes you think of yourself.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
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.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness,
and conflict comes when you seek consolation,
forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
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.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Few can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Problems, Identifying Problems, Problem-solving
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Realistic Expectations
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Courage, Fear
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Thinking
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
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