quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. "
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"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

"do it or don't do it but get on with it..."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti (Beginnings of Learning)

"Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also. "
— 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

""Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education." "
— Jiddu Krishnamurti (Education and the Significance of Life)

"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.
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— Jiddu Krishnamurti

""To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine..." "
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

"Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"where we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. we shut out the suffering of mankind."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"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."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The following of authority is the denial of intelligence...& in the process, self-knowledge & freedom are abandoned."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti (Education and the Significance of Life)

"The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer;
then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man
either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge.
Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty.
You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places
but you are a killer and so lose their friendship.
You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Analys​is does not transform consciousness."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Die Wandlung der Gesellschaft ist nicht so wichtig; sie wird sich natürlich und zwangsläufig ergeben, wenn der Mensch die innere Wandlung vollzogen hat."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it."
— 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

"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Die Ordnung des Denkens wird nicht durch Disziplin in Form dogmatischer Wiedergabe von Wissen herbeigeführt, sondern sie ergibt sich ganz natürlich, wenn der Erzieher versteht, daß bei der Entwicklung der Intelligenz eine Atmosphäre der Freiheit herrschen muß."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Be a light unto oneself"
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The problem is to be good without trying to be good."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti