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It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Teacher, Parent

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Inspirational, Life
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.148, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.49, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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.

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.

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

Truth is more in the process than in the result.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

The observer is the observed.

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

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Giving, Contradiction
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.120, New World Library

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Religious
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.6, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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

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

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 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

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.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.402, Rajpal & Sons

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life, Dying, Frightened

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

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