Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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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352. “It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.”

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353. “The very word “sorrow” colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.”

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354. “To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.”

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355. “Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?”

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356. “But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.”

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357. “Is not virtue a negation of becoming?”

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358. “The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.”

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359. “Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.”

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360. “Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.”

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361. “There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one’s whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all.”

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362. “You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.”

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

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364. “A man who lives never asks, “What is living?” and he has no theories about living. It is only the half-alive who talk about the purpose of life.”

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365. “A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.”

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366. “Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?”

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367. “When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.”

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

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369. “When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.”

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370. “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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371. “Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?”

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372. “We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”

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373. “What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.”

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

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375. “Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?”

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376. “Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders.”

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377. “It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

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378. “To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.”

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379. “I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence.”

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380. “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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381. “The military spirit makes you obedient, it makes you physically very disciplined; but inwardly your mind is gradually destroyed because you are imitating, following, copying. You become a mere tool of the older people, of the politician, an instrument of propaganda.”

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382. “Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.”

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383. “If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.”

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384. “If silence is not put together by thought, then what is it? To see clearly you must be silent, to hear clearly the mind must not be chattering. If you see the truth of it, then it happens. You do not have to make an effort to be silent.”

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385. “Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.”

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386. “We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.”

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387. “You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.”

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388. “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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389. “Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.”

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390. “There’s a great and unutterable beauty in all this.”

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391. “Each breath is transforming me into thine image.”

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392. “Most people are afraid to stand alone; they are afraid to think things out for themselves, afraid to feel deeply, to explore and discover the whole meaning of life.”

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393. “Love may be the ultimate solution to all man’s difficulties, problems and travails.”

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394. “In this emptiness there was fury; the fury of a storm, the fury of exploding universe, the fury of creation which could never have any expression. It was the fury of all life, death and love. But yet it was empty, a vast, boundless emptiness which nothing could ever fill, transform or cover up.”

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395. “If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour – whether that neighbour is near or very far away – forget about meditation...”

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396. “Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.”

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397. “If you look closely you will see that your search is nothing but a search for comfort and security and escape; not a search for understanding, not a search for truth, but rather a search for an evasion and, therefore, a search for the conquering of all obstacles; after all, all conquering is but substitution, and in substitution there is no understanding.”

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398. “Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.”

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399. “Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind. And coercion takes many forms, does it not? There is coercion through influence, through attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement or subtle forms of reward.”

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400. “A man who says he knows is already dead. But the man who thinks, “I don’t know,” who is discovering, finding out, who is not seeking an end, not thinking in terms of arriving or becoming – such a man is living, and that living is truth.”

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