He was an Indian mystic and philosopher whose teaching stresses universal religious values, personal insight, and autonomous self-discipline, synthesizing both Indian and Western philosophical and psychological principles.
His parents were devout Brahmin Hindus, who named their eighth son Krishnamurti (“the image of Krishna”), after the god Krsna, who appeared as an eighth child. For almost sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, Krishnamurti traveled all over the world talking to people about the need for a radical change in mankind. (1895-1986)
– Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes –
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Despair exists only when there is hope.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically, there is nothing in the world that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing. Bombay, public Talk, 1962
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no end to self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the denial of disorder there is order.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth does not belong to an individual.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life — perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
How can one be free of the images that one has? First of all, I must find out how these images come into being, what is the mechanism that creates them.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self-knowledge comes into being when we are aware of ourselves in relationship, which show what we are from moment to moment.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You and the world are not two different entities with separate problems; you and the world are one. You may be the result of certain tendencies, on environmental influences, but you are not different fundamentally from another. Inwardly we are very much alike; we are all driven by greed, ill will, fear, ambition, and so on…
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Learning is one thing and acquiring knowledge is another. Learning is a continuous process, not a process of addition, not a process which you gather and then from there act
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth or understanding comes in a flash, and that flash has no continuity; it is not within the field of time
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The religious man is he who does not belong to any religion, to any nation, to any race, who is inwardly completely alone, in a state of not-knowing, and for him the blessing of the sacred comes into being.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You are the world, the neighbour, the friend, the so-called enemy. If you would understand, you must first understand yourself, for in you is the root of all understanding. In you is the beginning and the end.” If you are very clear, if you are inwardly a light unto yourself, you will never follow anyone.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Man has always sought immortality; he paints a picture, puts his name on it, that is a form of immortality; leaving a name behind, man always wants to leave something of himself behind. What has he got to give – apart from technical knowledge – what has he of himself to give? What is he? You and I, what are we, psychologically? You may have a bigger bank account, be cleverer than I am, or this and that; but psychologically, what are we? – a lot of words, memories, experiences, and these we want to hand over to a son, put in a book, or paint in a picture, ‘me’. The ‘me’ becomes extremely important, the ‘me’ opposed to the community, the ‘me’, wanting to identify itself, wanting to fulfill itself, wanting to become something great – you know, all the rest of it. When you observe that ‘me’, you see that it is a bundle of memories, empty words: that is what we cling to; that is the very essence of the separation between you and me, they and we.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence. You cannot go out and buy freedom in the market. You cannot get it by reading a book, or by listening to someone talk. Freedom comes with intelligence.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
