Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.”

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

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

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

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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. “Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.”

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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. “Teaching is the noblest profession – if it can be called a profession at all. It is an art that requires, not just intellectual attainments, but infinite patience and love.”

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

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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. “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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314. “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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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. “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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317. “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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318. “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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319. “Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.”

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320. “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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321. “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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322. “Analysis does not transform consciousness.”

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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. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.”

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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind.”

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

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

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

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

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

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338. “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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339. “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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340. “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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341. “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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342. “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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343. “Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?”

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344. “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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345. “Solitude helps the mind to see itself clearly as in a mirror, and to free itself from the vain endeavor of ambition with all its complexities, fears, and frustrations, which are the outcome of self-centered activity.”

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346. “Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.”

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347. “Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?”

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348. “To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one’s own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.”

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349. “When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.”

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

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