Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without freedom, there is no creation.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. 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.

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.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.