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When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very

When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reality, People, Understanding
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real, Past, Men

It does not matter what you call the gaoler so long as he has the key that will open the door of your prison! Similarly, as I have the key to release Life from its prison, it does not matter in the least what you call either the key or myself. I am not concerned about the title.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Keys, Doors, Long
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Christian, Buddhist, Men

I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Responsibility, Thinking, Feelings

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sleep, Self, Organization
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.30, M-y books ltd

If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
War, Struggle, Goal
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Teacher, Book
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Beyond violence”, Harpercollins College Div

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Joy, Different, Pleasure
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.120, Open Court Publishing

The world is me and I am the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
World
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Allan W. Anderson (1991). “A Wholly Different Way of Living”, p.24, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

The description is not the described.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Description, Semantics
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Allan W. Anderson (1991). “A Wholly Different Way of Living”, p.146, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Belief

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Drink, Fountain, Quench

It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Agreement, Punishment
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Morality, Misery, Dogma
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Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religious, War, Division

There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Country, Believe
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
School, Responsibility, People

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Inspirational, Life, Flower
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action”, Editorial Kier

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Giving, Important
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “On Right Livelihood”, HarperCollins

To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
"Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Mind, Function
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, 1961: There Is No Thinker, Only Thought”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

As we are - the world is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, World
"Living in an Insane World". Jiddu Krishnamurti's second public talk in The Oak Grove, www.jkrishnamurti.org. May 21, 1944.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Creativity, Imagination, Creative
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, p.376, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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