Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare - something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state - something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.