Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

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

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

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

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.

If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.

I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

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

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

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

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.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.