You can’t go very far if you don’t begin very near.
—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
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Tradition
Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Intelligence
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
All tradition is merely the past.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Tradition
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
It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
—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: Progress, Self-improvement
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: Problem-solving, Problems, Identifying Problems
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Worry
The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Trust
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Belief
Do not think about yourself,
but be aware of the thought, emotion,
or action that makes you think of yourself.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive,
a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion is the frozen thought of men out of which they build temples.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Realistic Expectations
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
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Acceptance
To find out what you love to do demands a great deal of intelligence; because, if you are afraid of not being able to earn a livelihood, or of not fitting into this rotten society, then you will never find out. But, if you are not frightened, if you refuse to be pushed into the groove of tradition by your parents, by your teachers, by the superficial demands of society, then there is a possibility of discovering what it is you really love to do. So, to discover, there must be no fear of not surviving.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness,
and conflict comes when you seek consolation,
forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
—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: Fear, Courage
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
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
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
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don’t you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Topics: Fear
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