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Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Importance, Changes In Society, Humans
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Beyond violence”, Harpercollins College Div

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Children, School, Easier

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Inspirational, Life

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Book, Journey
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.262, M-y books ltd

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Love Is, Ideas
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1968). “Commentaries on Living: First-third Series, from the Notebooks of J. Krishnamurti”

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Discipline, Mind, Curb
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.33, M-y books ltd

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Flower, Backyards
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Writing, Want, Singers
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thinking, Discovery, Giving
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.14, M-y books ltd

You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti”, p.13, Harper Collins

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosophy, Book, Knowing
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.174, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teaching, Assessment, Personality
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.40, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Want, Facts, Silent
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.168, Open Court Publishing

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Inspiration, Mean
Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear, Desire, Inward
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1984). “Krishnamurti's notebook”, Harper San Francisco

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men

So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Self, Silence, Meditation

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

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

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Teacher, Leader, Guru
"Zeitgeist". Documentary, History, 2007.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Despair, There Is Hope
Jiddu Krishnamurti's 11th public talk in London, UK, May 25, 1961.

Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Achievement, Contentment, Outcomes
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.250, M-y books ltd

When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your anxiety, your joy. You do not dominate. You are not the man and she is not the woman to be used and thrown aside, a sort of breeding machine to carry on your name. When there is love, the word duty disappears.

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

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Essence, Awakening

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom, Inspire, Enlightenment

Without knowing myself, I have no real basis for thinking.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real, Thinking, Knowing
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Relationships To Oneself To Others To the World To Oneself, To Others, To the World”, p.16, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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