Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “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.”

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252. “In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.”

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253. “Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.”

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254. “In the denial of disorder there is order.”

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

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256. “You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy.”

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257. “Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.”

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258. “Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.”

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259. “True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.”

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260. “From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.”

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261. “I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.”

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262. “When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.”

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263. “Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.”

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264. “There is no complexity in what is, but only in the many escapes that we seek.”

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265. “That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.”

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266. “We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.”

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267. “Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.”

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268. “Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?”

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269. “Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.”

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270. “You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.”

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271. “My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”

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272. “Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.”

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273. “You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.”

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274. “Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.”

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275. “What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”

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276. “Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.”

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277. “Despair exists only when there is hope.”

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278. “To follow implies not only the denying of one’s own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following, your motive is a reward .”

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279. “A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.”

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280. “But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.”

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281. “We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.”

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282. “Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.”

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283. “To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.”

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284. “You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.”

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285. “If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.”

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286. “Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.”

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287. “In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.”

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288. “Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.”

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289. “When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between “what is” and “what should be”.”

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290. “Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship – psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer – we shall go on with wars.”

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291. “Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?”

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292. “Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.”

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293. “There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.”

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294. “If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.”

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295. “We have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality; we have remembrances of something which we have thought as love. But actually, brutally, we have no love.”

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296. “When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.”

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297. “If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.”

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298. “Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind.”

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299. “Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.”

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300. “It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.”

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