110+ Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes On Education, Fear And Awareness

Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher, speaker and writer. He is known for his teachings on psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, and bringing about radical change in society. His teachings were based on the principles of truth, love, and freedom from the bonds of the ego and the materialistic world. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti on love, education, fear.

Top 10 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

1. 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.
2. I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.
3. The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
4. A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
5. The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
6. We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
7. Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
8. Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
9. When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
10. There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Short Quotes

• If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
• The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.
• When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
• Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
• Most people like to live in illusions.
• One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
• Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
• Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
• You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
• What you believe you experience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Love

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

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind has to be empty to see clearly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Education

There is no end 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

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education. — 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

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Fear

You can only be afraid of what you think you know. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. — 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

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed. — 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

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Awareness

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Intelligence

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the seeing of what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Life

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

It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is more in the process than in the result. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Death

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About God

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

As the world has to attain the fulfilment of eternal life, to me it does not in the least matter what I am called -'Enlightened One', 'Son of God', or something else. To me, it has no purpose - as little as when the Buddha said, 'I am the Enlightened One'. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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'. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Silence

Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is the action of silence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only in alert silence that truth can be. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Insightful

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Transformative

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Analysis does not transform consciousness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Each breath is transforming me into thine image. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Liberating

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Mind

The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Relationship

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti Famous Quotes And Sayings

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

So 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

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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 we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind has to be empty to see clearly. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your anxiety, your joy. You do not dominate. You are not the man and she is not the woman to be used and thrown aside, a sort of breeding machine to carry on your name. When there is love, the word duty disappears. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

All tradition is merely the past. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression . — Jiddu Krishnamurti

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life Lessons by Jiddu Krishnamurti

1. Jiddu Krishnamurti taught that true freedom lies in understanding the nature of the self and the mind, and that this understanding can lead to a life of clarity and purpose.
2. He encouraged us to observe our thoughts and feelings without judgement, and to accept the impermanence of life.
3. He believed that we can overcome suffering and find true joy by being present in the moment and living with an open heart.