Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

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

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.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.