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All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

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

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Country, Clever, Character

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Love Is, Thinking
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self, Mind, Naked

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
Companionship, Dies

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Self, Understanding

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Beauty, Moving, Silence

It is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your husband, your neighbor, your child, your country, your leaders, your politicians, your gods-you have nothing but images. The images create the space between you and what you observe and in that space there is conflict, so what we are going to find out now together is whether it is possible to be free of the space we create, not only outside ourselves but in ourselves, the space which divides people in all their relationships.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Country, Husband

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Long, Mind, Doe
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.66, Open Court Publishing

A mind that practices love cannot love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Practice, Mind

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Choices, Meditation, Understanding
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reality, Mind, My Own
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1954). “The First and Last Freedom”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Conformity, Tradition

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Moments, Conscious, Uninvited

Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Light, Meditation

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self Esteem, Imagination, Shadow
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.230, M-y books ltd

Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heart, Love Is, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.48, M-y books ltd

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Causes, Problem

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Passion, Frightening, Ifs

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Blind Belief, Goal, Understanding
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To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Mind, Body

It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hands, Feelings, Mind

You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.'

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Fear, Ambition
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Allan W. Anderson (1991). “A Wholly Different Way of Living”, p.243, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Standards, Lays
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Simple, Simplicity, Needs
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.181, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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