Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

• The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world’s problems.

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• A man who says, ‘I want to change, tell me how to’, seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

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• When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

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• Where we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. we shut out the suffering of mankind.

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• Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

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• Analysis does not transform consciousness.

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  Tags in Analysis, Transformation

• Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another – and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Be a light unto oneself.

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• If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
  If there’s no relationship with nature then you become a killer;
  then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man
  either for gain, for “sport,” for food, or for knowledge.
  Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty.
  You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places
  but you are a killer and so lose their friendship.
  You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Imitation, Autonomy

• If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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• I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. … The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

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• The following of authority is the denial of intelligence…& in the process, self-knowledge & freedom are abandoned.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

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• To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine…

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• The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

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• Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• 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.

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  Tags in Widsom

• Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Companionship

Jiddu Krishnamurti (62)

Birth:	1895
Death:	1986
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Philosopher

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Jiddu Krishnamurti was born in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was an Indian philosopher, public speaker and author. His subject matter included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. Krishnamurti's teachings have had an influence on the thoughts of several notable public figures, including Kahlil Gibran, Aldous Huxley, Henry Miller, Bruce Lee, Jackson Pollock, David Bohm, Deepak Chopra, Indira Gandhi, and Eckhart Tolle. He wrote several books include: Education and the significance of life, The First and Last Freedom, Life Ahead, The Only Revolution, The Flight of the Eagle, The awakening of intelligence, Krishnamurti's Notebook, The ending of time (with David Bohm), On Love and Loneliness, On relationship, On fear, and The book of life. He established Krishnamurti foundations in the United States, Britain, India, Spain, and Canada to further his aims. His death at his home in Ojai, California, USA.

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