Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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304. “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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305. “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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306. “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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307. “There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.”

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

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310. “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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311. “After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?”

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

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

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314. “Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.”

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315. “Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?”

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316. “Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.”

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317. “Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower – natural, open, spontaneous.”

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

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319. “Do you use the opposite as a means of avoiding the actual which you don’t know how to deal with? Or is it because you have been told by thousands of years of propaganda that you must have an ideal – the opposite of ‘what is’ – in order to cope with the present? When you have an ideal you think it helps you to get rid of ‘what is’, but it never does. You may preach non-violence for.”

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320. “There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.”

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321. “Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action.”

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322. “As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.”

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323. “When there is complete attention, there is no confusion. It is only when there is no attention that confusion arises. Confusion arises when there is division, which is inattention.”

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324. “When you are comparing, you are really not looking at the sunset which is there, but you are looking at it in order to compare it with something else. So comparison prevents you from looking fully.”

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

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326. “But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.”

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327. “Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.”

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328. “Analysis does not transform consciousness.”

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329. “Every challenge must always be new, and as long as the mind is conditioned, it responds to challenge according to its conditioning; therefore, there is never an adequate response.”

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330. “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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331. “Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.”

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332. “Actual freedom is freedom from dependency, attachment, from the craving for experience. Freedom from the very structure of thought is to be a light to oneself.”

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333. “Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.”

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334. “The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love.”

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335. “Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?”

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

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338. “You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don’t live it.”

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339. “Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?”

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

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341. “With most of us, the difficulty is that we are unaware of our escapes. We are so conditioned, so accustomed to our escapes, that we take them as realities. But if we will look more deeply into ourselves, we will see how extraordinarily lonely, how extraordinarily empty, we are under the superficial covering of our escapes.”

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342. “Truth does not belong to an individual.”

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343. “If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.”

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344. “As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.”

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345. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.”

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346. “Hasn’t knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?”

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347. “To forgive, there must have been a wound; and to be wounded, there must have been the gatherings of pride. There is no generosity of heart as long as there is a referential memory, the “me” and the “mine.”

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348. “Watching and listening are a great art – watching and listening without any reaction, without any sense of the listener or the see-er. By watching and listening we learn infinitely more than from any book. Books are necessary, but watching and listening sharpen your senses.”

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349. “Beauty lies in the total abandonment of the observer and the observed and there can be self-abandonment only when there is total austerity – not the austerity of the priest with its harshness, its sanctions, rules and obedience – not austerity in clothes, ideas, food and behaviour – but the austerity of being totally simple which is complete humility. Then there is no achieving, no ladder to climb; there is only the first step and the first step is the everlasting step.”

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350. “Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?”

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