Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

202. “There is no tranquility in ideas.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

203. “You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

204. “Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

205. “If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

206. “Most of us are frightened of dying because we don’t know what it means to live. We don’t know how to live, therefore we don’t know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

207. “If you want to understand the beauty of a bird, a fly, or a leaf, or a person with all his complexities, you have to give your whole attention which is awareness. And you can give your whole attention only when you care, which means that you really love to understand – then you give your whole heart and mind to find out.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

208. “Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

209. “Peace is of the heart, not of the mind. To know peace you have to find out what beauty is.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

210. “Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

211. “It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.”

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212. “Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one’s life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

214. “Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

215. “There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

216. “Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

217. “The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

219. “Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”

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220. “Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.”

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221. “Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

222. “The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

223. “The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

224. “The significance of life is living.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

225. “The bliss of truth comes when the mind is not occupied with its own activities and struggles.”

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226. “And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

227. “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.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

229. “Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.”

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230. “What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

231. “The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.”

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232. “Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.”

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233. “Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.”

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234. “Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.”

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235. “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.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

236. “To be is to be related.”

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237. “A mind that is innocent means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. Because it is incapable of being hurt, it will not hurt another.”

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238. “To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.”

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239. “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.”

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240. “The flowering of love is meditation.”

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

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242. “To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.”

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243. “Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

244. “That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.”

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245. “Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.”

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246. “And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.”

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247. “To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.”

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248. “Where there is fear there is aggression.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

249. “Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.”

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250. “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.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti