Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Such a mind, which is free and therefore has humility, can learn – not a mind that resists. Learning is an extraordinary thing – to learn, not to accumulate knowledge. Accumulating knowledge is quite a different thing. What we call knowledge is comparatively easy, because that is a movement from the known to the known. But to learn is a movement from the known to the unknown – you learn only like that, do you not?”

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

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403. “Your parents and society use that word duty as a means of molding you, shaping you according to their particular idiosyncrasies, their habits of thought, their likes and dislikes, hoping thereby to guarantee their own safety.”

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404. “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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405. “When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.”

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406. “Therefore thought is responsible for fear. This is so, you can see it for yourself. When you are confronted with something immediately there is no fear. It is only when thought comes in that there is fear.”

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407. “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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408. “Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.”

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409. “We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.”

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410. “This, after all, is the truth: to have the capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is.”

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411. “Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?”

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412. “Psychological knowledge has made us dull.”

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413. “Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.”

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414. “When there is smoke, how can there be a pure flame?”

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

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416. “A mind that is burdened with fear is incapable of understanding, of seeing things as they are and going beyond them.”

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

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418. “Before you try to change and alter thought and feeling, find out the manner of their working, and you will see that they are continually adjusting themselves within the limitations established by that point fixed by desire and the fulfillment of that desire. In awareness there is no discipline.”

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419. “Doesn’t becoming imply time?”

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420. “One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.”

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421. “Can’t you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married – that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all.”

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422. “When the mother and father love their children, they do not compare them, they do not compare their child with another child; it is their child and they love their child. But you want to compare yourself with something better, with something nobler, with something richer, so you create in yourself a lack of love.”

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423. “The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.”

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424. “Humility is unaware of the division of the superior and the inferior, of the Master and the pupil. As.”

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425. “A man who knows that he is silent, who knows that he loves, does not know what love is or what silence is.”

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426. “In a deep river there is richness and many fish can live; but the shallow pool is soon dried up by the strong sun, and nothing remains except mud and dirt. For most of us, love is an extraordinarily difficult thing to understand because our lives are very shallow.”

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427. “You and I Are the Problem, Not the World The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world’s problems.”

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428. “Be a light unto oneself.”

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429. “From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.”

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430. “With so much poverty and degradation, one must have a very thick skin to be rich. Some.”

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431. “A mind that practices love cannot love.”

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432. “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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433. “Observe your own emotional states and you will see that the moments of great joy, great ecstasy, are unpremeditated; they happen, mysteriously, darkly, unknowingly.”

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434. “Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing. It seems to me that most of us are not aware, not only of what we are talking about but of our environment, the colours around us, the people, the shape of the trees, the clouds, the movement of water.”

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435. “Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.”

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436. “If I run after it, it is not love, it is a reward. In my inquiry, slowly, carefully, without distortion, without illusion, I have negated everything that it is not, and the other is.”

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437. “If you had love in your heart, you would show respect to those who have nothing and also to those who have everything; you would neither be afraid of those who have, nor disregard those who have not. Respect in the hope of reward is the outcome of fear. In love there is no fear.”

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438. “Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?”

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439. “I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.”

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440. “Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowing. It is better not to listen to a truth than to listen without acting, for then it becomes a poison.”

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441. “If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.”

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442. “Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.”

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443. “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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444. “If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud – you are all that, and that is love.”

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

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447. “What is important is to consider life not as an inner and outer, but as a whole, as a total undivided movement. Then action has quite a different meaning, for then it is not partial. It is fragmented or partial action that adds to the cloud of misery. The good is not the opposite of evil. The good has no relation to evil, and the good cannot be pursued. It flowers only when suffering is not.”

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448. “Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don’t you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.”

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449. “The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.”

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450. “Alone has quite a different meaning; alone has beauty. To be alone means something entirely different. And you must be alone. When man frees himself from the social structure of greed, envy, ambition, arrogance, achievement, status – when he frees himself from those, then he is completely alone. That is quite a different thing. Then there is great beauty, the feeling of great energy.”

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