Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti
This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti