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Of all the Qualifications, Love is the most important, for if it is strong enough in a man, it forces him to acquire all the rest, and all the rest without it would never be sufficient.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.
In seeking there are several things involved: there is the seeker and the thing that he seeks after.
Krishnamurti in India, 1970-71 (1971)
It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion.
Talks in Saanen (1974)
That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time — obviously.
A Wholly Different Way of Living (1970)
Truth is not to be bought any more than love can be bought.
When death comes, it does not ask your permission; it comes and takes you; it destroys you on the spot.
No one can lead you to truth; and if anyone leads you, it can only be to the known.
First, we must be very clear that you and the speaker are treating life not as a problem but as a tremendous movement.
Mind Without Measure (1984)
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
Questioning Krishnamurti : J. Krishnamurti in dialogue (1996)
To understand oneself, one needs enormous pliability, and that pliability is denied when we specialize in devotion, in action, in knowledge.
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward.
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
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.
He who is on the Path exists not for himself, but for others; he has forgotten himself, in order that he may serve them.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
The past modifying itself is the future — a continuity of what has been — and we find security in continuity, not in ending.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
Love does not compare, and so the envy and torture of "becoming" cease.
Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning (1963)
You are filling your neighbourhood with evil thought instead of with good thought, and so you are adding to the sorrow of the world.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Goodness shows itself in behaviour and action and in relationship.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
You must await it, it will come to you, you cannot go to it.