Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “There is no complexity in what is, but only in the many escapes that we seek.”

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

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

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

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306. “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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307. “Most people have lost that relationship with Nature; they look at all those mountains, valleys, the streams and the thousand trees as they pass by in their cars or walk up the hills chattering, but they are too absorbed in their own problems to look and be quiet.”

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.”

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311. “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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312. “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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313. “Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.”

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314. “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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315. “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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316. “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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317. “Is it possible to observe without the observer?”

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318. “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 is a reward.”

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319. “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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320. “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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321. “Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.”

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322. “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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323. “Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.”

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324. “We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution.”

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325. “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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326. “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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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. “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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330. “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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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. “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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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. “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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337. “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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338. “Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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348. “The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.”

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

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350. “A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.”

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