Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.”

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

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

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256. “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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257. “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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258. “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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259. “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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260. “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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261. “In the denial of disorder there is order.”

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262. “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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263. “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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264. “Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.”

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265. “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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266. “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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267. “Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.”

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

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

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270. “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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271. “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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272. “You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.”

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

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274. “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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275. “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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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. “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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278. “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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279. “Despair exists only when there is hope.”

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280. “To be is to be related.”

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281. “Is it possible to observe without the observer?”

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282. “Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing.”

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283. “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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284. “The flowering of love is meditation.”

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285. “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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286. “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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287. “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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288. “If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever.”

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289. “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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290. “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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291. “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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292. “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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293. “Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.”

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294. “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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295. “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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296. “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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297. “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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298. “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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299. “Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?”

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

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