Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

152. “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

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

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154. “If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities – would there be these separations?”

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155. “What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.”

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156. “Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.”

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157. “The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”

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158. “Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

159. “As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

160. “So through identification you have pleasure and pain.”

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161. “When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”

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162. “Learning implies a mind that doesn’t know.”

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

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164. “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.”

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165. “And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.”

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166. “Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.”

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167. “When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.”

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168. “Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

169. “Isn’t the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.”

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170. “Such awareness is like living with a snake in the room; you watch its every movement, you are very, very sensitive to the slightest sound it makes. Such a state of attention is total energy; in such awareness the totality of yourself is revealed in an instant.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

171. “The thought is not the thing.”

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172. “The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

173. “Most people like to live in illusions.”

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174. “The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.”

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175. “Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don’t know where it will take you.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

176. “All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.”

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

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178. “Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.”

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179. “There is no tranquility in ideas.”

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180. “Till the false is seen as false, truth is not.”

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181. “Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.”

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182. “The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.”

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183. “The ambitious man has never found his true vocation...”

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184. “Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.”

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185. “Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.”

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186. “We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.”

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187. “The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.”

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188. “When the mind goes beyond the thought of ‘the me,’ the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.”

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189. “It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.”

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190. “Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.”

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191. “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.”

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192. “There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is “being free.””

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193. “The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.”

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194. “We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.”

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195. “It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.”

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196. “When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren’t you separating yourself?”

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197. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.”

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198. “If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.”

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199. “Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.”

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200. “Truth is something which you must see immediately, and to see something clearly you must give your heart, mind and whole being.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti