49 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Indian Philosopher

Born: May 12, 1895

Died: Feb 17, 1986

Fear Love Mind Truth You Yourself

Related authors: Amartya Sen Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Nagarjuna Ramana Maharshi Sri Aurobindo Sri Chinmoy Swami Sivananda

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

Life Education You Learning Book Born Examination Finish Read Pass End Die Process Moment Whole

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. Jiddu Krishnamurti

You Yourself Rest Christian Else Muslim Indian See Call Because Tradition Nationality Being Anything Anything Else Mankind Separate Breeds Separating European Belief Why Violence Violent

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

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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 You Dance Must Poems Write Part Look Sing Read Understand Just Just One Little Skies Whole Suffer Why

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation. Jiddu Krishnamurti

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mind Our Secure Security Becomes Tradition Decay

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti

You Sunset Photography Free Flower Tree Imitate Draw Significance Would Would-Be Exactly Mere Feel Which Meaning Meaning Of Paint Copy

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

People Free Something Longer Famous Famous People Want Moment

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear. Jiddu Krishnamurti

People Result Nothing Second-Hand Our Guided Circumstances Ourselves Kinds Tendencies Clear Environment New Accept Pristine Been Discovered Influences Either Us Nothing New Original Lived Compelled

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. Jiddu Krishnamurti

You Change Transformation Without Understand Begin Trying Then

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love Myself You Understanding Out Understand

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education Fight Fear Exploitation Pleasant Though System Ourselves Security Phrases Seek Various Environment Over Over It Within Educated Cover Been Trained Personal Gain Which Us Based Professions

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nature Relationship Animal Dog Monkey Other Benefit Our Ways Guinea Guinea Pig Would Find Wounds Abide Could Never Heal Pig Establish Bodies Deep Appetite Harm

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

Problem Will Out Come Because Understand Answer Really Separate

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth God You Ignorance Reality Yourself Whatever Nothing Philosopher Books Immaturity Must Lies Total Only Self Never Priests Nobody Like Know Know Yourself Call Answer Answered Question Whether Why

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life Relationship You Live Living Related We Cannot Ourselves Over Occasionally Around Built Wall Just Cannot Deeply

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

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Great Political Impossible Animals Own Our Ourselves Rather Cage Leaders Built Refinement Political Leaders Domesticated Revolving Which Exploit Who

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear Constant Indication Belief Assertion

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