Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Those who play a safe game die very safely.”

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

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

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255. “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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256. “Where there is fear there is aggression.”

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

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

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263. “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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264. “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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265. “Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.”

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

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

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268. “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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269. “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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270. “You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.”

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

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272. “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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273. “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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274. “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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275. “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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276. “Despair exists only when there is hope.”

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277. “To be is to be related.”

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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. “The flowering of love is meditation.”

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280. “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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281. “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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282. “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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283. “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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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. “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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286. “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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287. “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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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. “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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290. “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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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. “Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?”

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

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

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300. “If I condemn something, I do not understand it.”

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