Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

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Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have.

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The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

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Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

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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.

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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

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Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

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Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.

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I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

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Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?

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Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

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Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory.

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Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

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There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

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You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

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Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

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Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

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Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

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