Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

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.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

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

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

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

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

Truth is more in the process than in the result.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

The observer is the observed.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

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.

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

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

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

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

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

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

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

Truth is a pathless land.