Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Be a light unto oneself.”

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

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

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354. “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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355. “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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356. “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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357. “The very word “sorrow” colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.”

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

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359. “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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360. “Is not virtue a negation of becoming?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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370. “Are we ever alone? Or are we carrying with us all the burdens of yesterday?”

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

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

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

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374. “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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375. “Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders.”

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

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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. “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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380. “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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381. “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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382. “Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.”

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383. “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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384. “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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385. “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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386. “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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387. “There’s a great and unutterable beauty in all this.”

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388. “One society will condemn those who believe in God, and another society will condemn those who do not. They are both the same.”

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389. “When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.”

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

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

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

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393. “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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394. “Peace is not something petty, created by the mind; it is enormously great, infinitely extensive, and it can be understood only when the heart is full.”

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395. “If you understand the meaning of that word, the real art is not painting pictures, but the art of putting your life in its proper place, which is to live harmoniously.”

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396. “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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397. “Beware of the man who offers you a reward in this world or in the next.”

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398. “Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?”

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399. “Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.”

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400. “The mind is not a plaything of the brain, whose function is mechanical.”

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