Quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

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.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.