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I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Names, Mountain, Breeze

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mind, Resistance, Action
Third Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24, 1971.

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Men, Space
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.40, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship. You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Sports

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowing, Mind, Desire

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ideas, People, Groups
First Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 26, 1971.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Complexity, Bases
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World”, p.67, Krishnamurti Foundation America via PublishDrive

When the wind blows across the various continents, it does not bring with it the nationalities of the countries through which it passes. So likewise with Life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Country, Blow, Wind
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Animal, Rocks

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Moments, Form, Discord
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Self, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World”, p.50, Krishnamurti Foundation America via PublishDrive

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Secret, Mind, Want

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Speech in Holland, 3 Aug. 1929, in Lilly Heber Krishnamurti (1931) ch. 2

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real, Twenties, Inquiring
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Atheist, Mind, Atheism
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, Reality, Giving
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.134, M-y books ltd

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Russia, Europe
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Real, Mind
"Talks by Krishnamurti in India 1956-1957 (Verbatim Report) New Delhi, Madras, Bombay". Jiddu Krishnamurti's sixth talk in New Delhi, India, www.jkrishnamurti.org. October 31, 1956.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
War, Stage, Revolt
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Compassion, Trying, Quality
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2009). “The Pocket Krishnamurti”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Memories, Matter, Insight

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ego, Becoming, Stills

The significance of life is living.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life Is, Significance, Significance Of Life

Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Expression, Form, Importance
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Relationship

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