The First and Last Freedom Quotes

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.”
― jiddu krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system necessitates; but the result will obviously not be the understanding of myself.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Truth cannot be given to you by somebody. You have to discover it; and to discover, there must be a state of mind in which there is direct perception.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity: it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“When there is love, self is not.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“The pursuit, all the world over, of gurus and their systems, reading the latest books on this and that, and so on, seems to me so utterly empty, so utterly futile, for you may wander all over the earth but you have to come back to yourself. And, as most of us are totally unaware of ourselves, it is extremely difficult to begin to see clearly the process of our thinking and feeling and acting. The”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“لا يشكل حتى أفضل كتاب في فن الطبخ بديلًا لأسوأ عشاء. ذلك أن الحقيقة تبدو واضحة بما يكفي. فقد ارتكب أعمق الفلاسفة، وأكثر علماء اللاهوت معرفة وذكاء، باستمرار، وعبر العصور، خطأ مماهاة بناءاتهم اللفظية المحضة مع الحقائق، آو ارتكبوا الخطأ الأكبر متخيلين أن الرموز هي نوعًا ما أكثر حقيقية مما ترمز إليه. لم تمر عبادتهم للكلمة دون احتجاج.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“In order to transform the world about us, with its misery, wars, unemployment, starvation, class divisions and utter confusion, there must be a transformation in ourselves. The revolution must begin within oneself – but not according to any belief or ideology, because revolution based on an idea, or in conformity to a particular pattern, is obviously no revolution at all. To bring about a fundamental revolution in oneself, one must understand the whole process of one’s thought and feeling in relationship. That is the only solution to all our problems – not to have more disciplines, more beliefs, more ideologies and more teachers. If we can understand ourselves as we are from moment to moment without the process of accumulation, then we shall see how there comes a tranquillity that is not a product of the mind, a tranquillity that is neither imagined nor cultivated; and only in that state of tranquillity can there be creativeness.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“There is a transcendent spontaneity of life, a ‘creative Reality’, as Krishnamurti calls it, which reveals itself as immanent only when the perceiver’s mind is in a state of ‘alert passivity’, of ‘choiceless awareness’. Judgement and comparison commit us irrevocably to duality. Only choice-less awareness can lead to non-duality, to the reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love. Ama et fac quod vis. If you love, you may do what you will.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Transformation can only take place immdeiatly; the revolution is now, not tomorrow”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“A man with worldly riches or a man rich in knowledge and belief will never know anything but darkness, and will be the centre of all mischief and misery.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Creativeness is quite a different state of being, is it not? It is a state in which the self is absent, in which the mind is no longer a focus of our experiences, our ambitions, our pursuits and our desires. Creativeness is not a continuous state, it is new from moment to moment, it is a movement in”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“After all, a cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind; it is merely a repetitive mind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Love is the only thing that is eternally new.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“it is love alone that can solve all our human problems.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“You may build with great care a marvellous society, using the infinite knowledge science has given us. But so long as the psychological strife and struggle and battle are not understood and the psychologica, overtones and currents are not overcome, the structure of society, however marvellously built, is bound to crash, as has happened over and over again.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“If, with all its power and superiority, one cannot think for oneself, there can be no peace in the world.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Ideas are not truth; and truth is something that must be experienced directly, from moment to moment.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“The understanding of oneself is not a result, a culmination; it is seeing oneself from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship—one’s relationship to property, to things, to people and to ideas.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“revolution must take place within, not merely outwardly.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“A fact can never be denied. Opinion about fact can be denied.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Ideas always breed enmity, confusion, conflict.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom