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Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Book, Blessing
"Commentaries on Living".

Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Memories, Taken, Cells

The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
World, Problem, Projection
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.68, Rajpal & Sons

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Awakening, Clarity
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Heart, Perfection, Mind
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Desire, Stills, Urges
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.20, Harper Collins

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
World, Consciousness, Crisis

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Together, Our Relationship, Mines
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2012). “Social Responsibility”, p.66, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
War, World, Our Society
Second Public Talk at Ojai, May 21, 1944.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Acceptance, Denial, Authority
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “The only revolution”

To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Honesty, Integrity, Rewards
"This Light in Oneself". Jiddu Krishnamurti's 4th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, jkrishnamurti.org. May 19, 1968.

Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Revolution, Transformation
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1954). “The First and Last Freedom”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

The only freedom is the freedom from the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Known

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Absolutely Nothing
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.115, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.155, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Inspiring, Dance
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Motivational, Education, Being Yourself
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.112, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.

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

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Memories, People, Meditation

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.

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

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1962-1963): A Psychological Revolution”, p.120, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wall, Order, Differences

Only the free mind knows what Love is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Love Is, Mind
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.66, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Observation, Observers
Fifth Public Talk Saanen, July 26, 1970.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, People, Awakening

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