Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

Freedom is now or never.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.