Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

Doesn't becoming imply time?

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

Only the free mind knows what Love is.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

The flowering of love is meditation.

Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?