Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

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If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

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When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

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Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

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If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

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We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

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All tradition is merely the past.

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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.

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I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

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From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

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We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

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Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

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Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

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Of course it is better to emphasize the unity of human beings rather than to emphasize the diversity of forms, that is to say, the man and the woman separately. If you have separate organizations for men and women you will tend to set them apart from each other, which is what often happens at present and is absurd!

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Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

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To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

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A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

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Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

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