Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

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

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Happy is the man who is nothing.