Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Status, and Thoughts
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
Those who play a safe game die very safely.
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Intuition is the only true guide in life.
Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.
I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
What you believe you experience.
Be a light unto oneself
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
Only the free mind knows what Love is.
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Most people like to live in illusions.
Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Learning is the very essence of humility . . .
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.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.
Truth is more in the process than in the result.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
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.
You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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.
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.
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.
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
As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.
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.
Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
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.
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.