Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intuition is the only true guide in life.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti