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We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self Esteem, Fall, Levels
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.168, M-y books ltd

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

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

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Men, Culture

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Heart, Giving
"Beyond violence".

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religious, Reality, Sensitive
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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
Love, Change, Passion
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Loss, Known

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rain, Self, Expression

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wise, Wisdom, Clever

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Peace

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Powerful, Children, War
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hero, Perfect, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.131, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.187, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Country, Flower, May
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wall, Loneliness, Race
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hurt, Memories, Yesterday
Fifth Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland, August 8, 1971.

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Kind, Authority, Denied
Jiddu Krishnamurti's 4th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 28, 1967.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ideas, Followers, Want
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Helping, Transformation, Influence
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, Penguin Books India

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Light, Meditation
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1970). “The only revolution”, Not Avail

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Home, Order

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

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

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Humanity, Earth, May

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reality, Discovery, Belief
1970 BBC interview, 7 Dec.

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