Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

102. “Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

103. “Only the free mind knows what Love is.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

104. “Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

105. “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

106. “Fear is nonacceptance of what is.”

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107. “After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.”

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108. “But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.”

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109. “The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

110. “Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.”

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111. “In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.”

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112. “It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

113. “Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

114. “Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

115. “A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.”

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116. “Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves...”

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117. “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

118. “Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

119. “To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.”

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120. “A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

121. “The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.”

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122. “In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

123. “The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.”

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124. “The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you.”

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125. “As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.”

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126. “Freedom from something is not freedom.”

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127. “The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.”

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128. “What you believe you experience.”

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129. “The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.”

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130. “If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.”

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131. “Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

132. “The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

133. “To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.”

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134. “Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.”

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135. “Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.”

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136. “The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?”

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137. “This is what I am, and I am going to understand this.”

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138. “The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”

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139. “Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.”

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140. “Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.”

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141. “The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.”

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142. “Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.”

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143. “Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.”

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144. “Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.”

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145. “The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.”

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146. “Can thought be silent?”

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147. “All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.”

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148. “Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.”

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149. “You must be a light unto yourself.”

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150. “If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti