Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Fear is nonacceptance of what is.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

The only freedom is the freedom from the known.

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.