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

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Inspirational, Judgement, Intelligence

If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Flower, Moving

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Yoga, Health
"The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Attachment, Essence

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Beautiful, Lonely, Mean

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
People, There Is Hope

It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Teacher, Parent

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
Love, Inspirational, Life
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.148, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem. But, the moment you cease to struggle and let the problem tell you the whole story, give all its significance - then there is understanding, which means, obviously, that to understand, the mind must be quiet.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Struggle, Mean, Thinking
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Struggle, Self
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.87, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Thinking, You Think You Know

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowing, Know Yourself
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.117, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self, Rivers, Achievement
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Motivational, Eye, Faces

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Soul, Intuition

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
World, Transformation
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Social Responsibility: Talks”, p.18, Krishnamurti Foundation America (PublishDrive)

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Book, Thinking, Philosopher
First Public Talk, Bangalore, India, January 30, 1971.

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth Is
"Commentaries On Living: Second Series".

When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Two, Effort, Meditation
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Discipline, Mind

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
Christian, Spiritual, Country
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rose, Lilies, It Is What It Is
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Relationship, Isolation, Know Yourself

What you believe you experience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Believe, Semantics
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.102, M-y books ltd

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