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The reality is that I am the Teacher.

The reality is that I am the Teacher.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, Reality
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How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Believe, Compassion, Charity

Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.

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

Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Distance, Heart, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.107, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hate, Mean, Self
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1984). “Krishnamurti's notebook”, Harper San Francisco

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Consciousness, States, Sensitivity
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2016). “Krishnamurti's Notebook”, p.128, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Instruments, Observation
Jiddu Krishnamurti's second public talk at Brockwood Park in the UK, August 26, 1979.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Concern
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.18, Open Court Publishing

Freedom is now or never.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Mind, Now Or Never

Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Giving, Tree
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What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
World, Action, Deteriorating
Second Seminar Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK, September 14, 1979.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Expression, Doe, Looks
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Doesn't becoming imply time?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Time, Becoming

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, Jesus, Son
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Is it possible to observe without the observer?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Observers
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, p.356, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education, Helping, Students
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2017). “Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World”, p.52, Krishnamurti Foundation America (PublishDrive)

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reading, Character, Giving

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Lying, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.88, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

This is what I am, and I am going to understand this.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self Esteem, Ideas, Patterns
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1968). “Commentaries on Living: From the Notebooks of J. Krishnamurti”

My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
People, Giving, Understanding
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Truth does not belong to an individual.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Doe, Individual
10th Conversation with D. Bohm, Brockwood Park, UK and Gstaad, Switzerland, September 27, 1975.

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Beautiful, Artist, Long
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Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Use, Littles, Lasting
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If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, Growing Up, Heart
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