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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

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.

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Men, Inquiring
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.104, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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.

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

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Effort, Religion
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.262, Rajpal & Sons

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

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."

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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.

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

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

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

The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.

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Love, Truth, Book
Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.572, Rajpal & Sons

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.'

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Fear, Ambition
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Allan W. Anderson (1991). “A Wholly Different Way of Living”, p.243, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Truth, Men, Culture

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.187, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love, Life, Truth

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