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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

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

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Effort, Strange, Purity
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Accepting, Should, Humans

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.57, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

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

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religious, Government, Organization

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Education
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.57, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mirrors, Self, Wish
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Attachment, Next Day

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Moments, Truth Love, Cease
"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.

Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Culture, Looks

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Teacher

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Awakening, Should
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2000). “Choiceless Awareness”, p.76, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death.

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

Truth is more in the process than in the result.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reality, Political, Mind

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

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

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Moments, Awareness
Seventh Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland, August 10, 1971.

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Clever, Struggle, Intelligent
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

Where there is fear there is aggression.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Aggression
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.39, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ideas, Facts

The observer is the observed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.41, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

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

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Book, Self, Awareness
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship”

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intuition, Guides
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.91, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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