Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “The flowering of love is meditation.”

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252. “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.”

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

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

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255. “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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256. “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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257. “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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258. “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.”

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

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260. “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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261. “In the denial of disorder there is order.”

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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. “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.”

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265. “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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266. “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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267. “In the present is eternity, and to understand that, mind must be free of the burden of the past; and to free the mind of the past there must be an intense questioning of the present, not the considering of how the “I” will continue in the future.”

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268. “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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269. “No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.”

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270. “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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271. “To be is to be related.”

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272. “Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing. The.”

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

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274. “Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.”

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275. “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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276. “Happiness comes when you are doing something because you really love to do it, and not because it gives you riches or makes you a prominent person.”

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277. “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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278. “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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279. “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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280. “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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281. “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.”

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

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284. “To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.”

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285. “The observer is the observed and therein lies sanity, the whole, and with the holy is love.”

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286. “Don’t we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?”

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287. “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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288. “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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289. “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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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. “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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292. “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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293. “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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294. “There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.”

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

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297. “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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298. “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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299. “After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?”

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300. “It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.”

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