Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

1895–1986 India

Jiddu Krishnamurti (11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was a spiritual teacher, public speaker, and writer, on psychological, sociological, and spiritual subjects.

India
Non-fiction authors
Philosophers

Also known as: J. Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it.

Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)

I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

The becoming is mechanical and implies time. Attention has no quality of time. All this is a tremendously complicated issue. One must gently, deeply go into it.

Letters to the Schools (1981)

And this goes on day after day, and is done not by one man but by thousands. Do you begin to see how base, how terrible a sin this is? You must avoid it altogether.

At the Feet of the Master (1911)

The brain is the source of thought.

The Urgency of Change (1970)

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.

You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you — your relationship with others and with the world — there is nothing else.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

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.

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally.

I think we must see this very clearly right at the beginning — that if one would solve the everyday problems of existence, whatever they may be, one must first see the wider issues and then come to the detail.

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within?

Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)

If we would bring about a sane and happy society we must begin with ourselves and not with another, not outside of ourselves, but with ourselves.

We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

That is the first thing to learn — not to seek.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

The First and Last Freedom (1954)

Despair exists only when there is hope.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jiddu Krishnamurti (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.