Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

All tradition is merely the past.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

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.