Jiddu Krishnamurti
author profile
born
December 13, 1901
died
February 17, 1986
gender
male
place of birth
Madanapalle, Andrapradesh, India
genre
Religion & Spirituality, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction
influences
philosophy, meditation, human relationships
about this author
Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti was a popular writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included (but was not limited to): the purpose of meditation, human relationships, and how to enact positive change in global society. For more than sixty years he spoke around the world and shared his thoughts on death, disease, freedom, meditation, fear, God, and nature.
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Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti avg rating 4.44 — 238 ratings — published 1969 8 editions |
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Think on These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti avg rating 4.37 — 241 ratings — published 1975 3 editions |
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The Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti avg rating 4.31 — 135 ratings — published 1973 7 editions |
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The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Aldous Huxley avg rating 4.42 — 119 ratings — published 1954 4 editions |
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Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti avg rating 4.46 — 112 ratings — published 1996 |
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On Love and Loneliness by Jiddu Krishnamurti avg rating 4.32 — 82 ratings — published 1994 |
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Education and the Significance of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti avg rating 4.41 — 70 ratings — published 1955 4 editions |
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On Fear by Jiddu Krishnamurti avg rating 4.43 — 65 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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The Ending of Time by Jiddu Krishnamurti, David Bohm avg rating 4.33 — 52 ratings — published 1985 4 editions |
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Commentaries on Living 1 by Jiddu Krishnamurti avg rating 4.17 — 53 ratings — published 1994 4 editions |
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"...it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. "
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
— 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
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
