Source: Think on these things
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Famous Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship
Source: Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists
Source: Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists
“Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved
“The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.”
Source: Meditations
“As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.”
“Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.”
Source: Social Responsibility
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness
Source: On Nature and the Environment
Source: On Nature and the Environment
Source: Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967
“The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.”
Source: You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities
“To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.”
“The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
Source: The Meditative Mind
“Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.”
Source: The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader
“The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship
Source: What Are You Doing with Your Life?
“Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.”
Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning
Source: Life Ahead
“The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.”
“Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.”
Source: Social Responsibility
“If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.”
“Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.”
Source: Meditations
“All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness
Source: The Meditative Mind