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There can be freedom from fear only when there is self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Any feeling of malice or envy, however slight it may be, is also destructive of this creative understanding without which there is no happiness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To respond to any challenge according to one’s conditioning is merely to expand the prison, or to decorate its bars.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man who loves obviously has no enmity and to all these things he is indifferent. Sympathy, forgiveness, the relationship of possessiveness, jealousy, and fear—all these things are not love. They are all of the mind, are they not?… The mind can only corrupt love, it cannot give birth to love, it cannot give beauty. You can write a poem about love, but that is not love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the doing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But if you still want to find out, you will see that fear is not love, dependence is not love, jealousy is not love, possessiveness and domination are not love, responsibility and duty are not love, self-pity is not love, the agony of not being loved is not love, love is not the opposite of hate any more than humility is the opposite of vanity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What matters is to understand pleasure, not try to get rid of it—that is too stupid. Nobody can get rid of pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life has no answer. Life has only one thing, one problem— which is, living. The man who lives totally, completely, every minute without choice, neither accepting nor rejecting the thing as it is, such a man is not seeking an answer, he is not asking what the purpose of life is, nor is he seeking a way out of life. But that requires great insight into oneself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality; we have remembrances of something which we have thought as love. But actually, brutally, we have no love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought exists only in words, or in images. Meditation demands the most extraordinary discipline – not the discipline of suppression and conformity – but that which comes when you observe your thinking, when there is an observation of thought. That very observation brings its own extraordinary subtle discipline.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The right kind of education consists in understanding the child as he is without imposing upon him an ideal of what we think he should be. To enclose him in the framework of an ideal is to encourage him to conform, which breeds fear and produces in him a constant conflict between what he is and what he should be; and all inward conflicts have their outward manifestations in society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is one of the greatest problems in life. A mind that is caught in fear lives in confusion, in conflict, and therefore must be violent, distorted, and aggressive. It dare not move away from its own patterns of thinking, and this breeds hypocrisy. Until we are free from fear, we may climb the highest mountain, invent every kind of God, but we will remain in darkness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To talk about another, pleasantly or viciously, is an escape from oneself, and escape is the cause of restlessness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Deliberate attempt to meditate is not meditation. It must happen. […] Only be aware of what you are thinking and doing and nothing else.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The observer is the observed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Goodness—you understand, Sirs?—goodness can only flower in freedom, not in tradition. The world needs change, you need tremendous revolution in yourself; the world needsthis tremendous revolution

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that is innocent means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. Because it is incapable of being hurt, it will not hurt another.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The desire to use others for your psychological necessities makes for dependence, and when you depend you must hold, possess; and what you possess possesses you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind conforms, imitates, because there is more security in conformity, in following a pattern.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Don’t accept anything, it does not matter who says it, but investigate the matter for yourself. If you merely accept, you become mechanical, dull, you are already dead; but if you investigate, if you think things out for yourself, then you are alive, vital, a creative human being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To die is to love. The beauty of love is not in past remembrances or in the images of tomorrow. Love has no past and no future; what has, is memory, which is not love. Love with its passion is just beyond the range of society, which is you. Die, and it is there.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Transformation can only take place immdeiatly; the revolution is now, not tomorrow

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Inwardly we are whirlpools of misery and mischief and therefore, to be regarded outwardly as a great figure is very gratifying.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without first knowing yourself, how can you know what is true? Illusion is inevitable without self knowledge. It is childish to be told and to accept that you are this or that. Beware

Jiddu Krishnamurti

That is what we do. We carry our burdens all the time; we never die to them, we never leave them behind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Because the brain functions perfectly only in order, not in disorder. It functions most efficiently when there is complete order, whether that order is neurotic or rational; because in neurosis, in imbalance, there is order, and the brain accepts that order.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you act according to your principles you are being dishonest because when you act according to what you think you ought to be you are not what you are. It is a brutal thing to have ideals.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

This society conditions the mind to a particular pattern of thought, the pattern of self-improvement, self-adjustment, self-sacrifice, and only those who are capable of breaking away from all conditioning can discover that which is not measurable by the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

when experience becomes a remembrance, that remembrance destroys creative understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are not only slaves of the culture in which we have been brought up; we are also slaves to the vast cloud of misery and sorrow of all humanity, to the vastness of its confusion, violence and brutality. We never seem to pay attention to the accumulated sorrow of man. Nor are we aware of the terrible violence which has been gathering generation after generation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be free from violence means everything to me. It is more important to me than sex, food, position, for this thing is corrupting me.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We don’t just love and leave it there, but we ask something in return; and in that very asking we become dependent.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A fact can never be denied. Opinion about fact can be denied.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought originates from conclusions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When there is smoke, how can there be a pure flame?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You may build with great care a marvellous society, using the infinite knowledge science has given us. But so long as the psychological strife and struggle and battle are not understood and the psychologica, overtones and currents are not overcome, the structure of society, however marvellously built, is bound to crash, as has happened over and over again.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The now has greater significance than the tomorrow. In the now is all time, and to understand the now is to be free of time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Now, what makes the mind petty? Surely, the mind is narrow, limited, shallow, petty, as long as it is acquisitive. It may give up worldly things and become acquisitive in the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, but it is still petty because in acquiring, it develops the will to achieve, to gain, and this very will to achieve constitutes pettiness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In attention there is no focusing, no choice; there is complete awareness without any interpretation. And if we can listen so attentively, completely, to what is being said, then that very attention brings about the miracle of change within the mind itself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am just saying that when the mind is tethered to any particular conclusion, whether temporary or permanent, it is incapable of discovering something new.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So long as there is loneliness, shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency, which in its outer expression is dependence, there must be pain.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There can be fundamental and lasting change in the world, there can be love and intelligent fulfillment, only when you wake up and begin to free yourself from the net of illusions, the many illusions which you have created about yourself through fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is a flame without smoke, ever fresh, creative, joyous. Such love is dangerous to society, to relationship. So, thought steps in, modifies, guides it, legalizes it, puts it out of danger; then one can live with it.Krishnamurti, Jiddu. The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti (Kindle Locations 1628-1629). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The strange thing was that you felt such a great sense of affection, not for anything or for anyone, but the fullness of what may be called love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sorrow is the shadow of desire.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief, because your very belief projects what you think ought to be God, what you think ought to be true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship is a mirror in which I can see myself. That mirror can either be distorted, or it can be ‘as is’, reflecting that which is. But most of us see in relationship, in that mirror, things we would rather see; we do not see what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I must love the very thing I am studying. If you want to understand a child, you must love and not condemn him. You must play with him, watch his movements, his idiosyncrasies, his ways of behaviour; but if you merely condemn, resist or blame him, there is no comprehension of the child.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is also laughter in life. Laughter is a lovely thing—to laugh without reason, to have joy in one’s heart without cause, to love without seeking anything in return. But such laughter rarely happens to us. We are burdened with sorrow; our life is a process of misery and strife, a continuous disintegration, and we almost never know what it is to love with our whole being….

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It would be a marvelous thing if in the process of your listening—unemotionally, not sentimentally—to what is being said … you could really understand sorrow and be totally free of it; because then there would be no self-deception, no illusions, no anxieties, no fear, and the brain could function clearly, sharply, logically. And then, perhaps, one would know what love is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The movement from certainty to uncertainty is what I call fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

it was a movement in complete freedom, a movement that had no direction anddimension; in that movement there was boundless energy whose very essence was stillness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Therefore you must die to every thing that you know psychologically, so that your mind is clear, not tortured, so that it sees things as they are, both outwardly and inwardly.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the present is eternity, and to understand that, mind must be free of the burden of the past; and to free the mind of the past there must be an intense questioning of the present, not the considering of how the “I” will continue in the future.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

This identification puts an end to all creative under standing, and then one becomes a mere tool in the hands of the party boss, the priest or the favored leader.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is it not necessary for each to know for oneself what is the right means of livelihood? If we were avaricious, envious, seeking power, then our means of livelihood will correspond to our inward demands and so produce a world of competition, ruthlessness, oppression, ultimately ending in war.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must have passion to create—not babies—to bring about a different world, different human beings in the world, to change the society in which you live. Without that tremendous passion, one becomes mediocre, soft, unclear, lacking integrity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A word is not the thing that it describes.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sir, anything truly revolutionary is created by a few who see what is true and are willing to live according to that truth; but to discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Look, listen to all this, listen to all the noise that is going on in the world. Don’t take sides, don’t jump to any conclusions, but just listen. Don’t say one noise is better than another noise; they are all noises, so just listen first. And listen also to your own noise, your chattering, your wishes—‘I want to be this and I don’t want to be that

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought originates from conclusions. Merely to acquire information or knowledge is not to learn.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You will still want to be admired, to be socially prominent, you will still long for position, prestige; and in the very demand for admiration, in the struggle for prominence, there is always the sting of sorrow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Unfortunately, your sensitivity is destroyed because, from the time you are born till you die, you are everlastingly being told to do this and not to do that.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The whole concern of an intelligent person is to see the facts and understand the problem—which is not to think in terms of succeeding or failing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One can see very clearly how the conditioning begins, how two thousand years of propaganda in the Christian world has made it worship its culture, while the same kind of thing has been going on in the East.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

No authority here or hereafter can give you knowledge of yourself; without self-knowledge there is no liberation from ignorance, from sorrow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The journey within oneself must be undertaken not for a result, not to solve conflict and sorrow;

Jiddu Krishnamurti

to learn to stand alone so that you are not caught either in the will of the many or in the will of one, and are therefore capable of discovering for yourself what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All sense of power, of domination, gives strength to the self, to the "me" and the "mine"; and is not the self a hindrance to reality?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What matters is to understand for oneself, not through the direction of others, the total content of consciousness, which is conditioned, which is the result of society, of religion, of various impacts, impressions, memories—to understand all that conditioning and be free of it. But there is no “how” to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought is the movement of time

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystalized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

See what gossip does. It begins with evil thought, and that in itself is a crime. For in everyone and in everything there is good; in everyone and in everything there is evil.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only when the breezes stop does the lake become quiet.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the moment of attention the self, the ‘me’, is absent, and it is that moment of attention that is good, that is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man with worldly riches or a man rich in knowledge and belief will never know anything but darkness, and will be the centre of all mischief and misery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Humility cannot be pursued, and that is the beauty of humility.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only a mind that is capable of adjusting itself to the present, continually, from moment to moment, can meet the powerful influences and pressures constantly put upon us by our environment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Whether in this world of politicians, power, position and authority, or in the so-called spiritual world where you aspire to be virtuous, noble, saintly, the moment you want to be somebody you are no longer free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In this relationship of psychological dependence, there must always be conscious or unconscious fear, suspicion that often lies hidden in pleasant-sounding words.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal withpeople, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you neednothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away fromyourself.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-disgust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny your self nothing--give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I cannot but see you as myself.It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happiness is never your own; it is where the ‘I’ is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

In the stillness of the mind, I saw myself as I am: unbound.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Humanity's problem lies in the misuse of the mind only.All the treasures of nature and spirit are open to man who will use his mind rightly.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -- these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Consciousness is power. Be aware of what needs be done and it will be done. Only keep alert – and quiet. Once you reach your destination and know your real nature, your existence becomes a blessing to all. You may not know, nor will the world know; yet the help radiates.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

What is religion? A cloud in the sky. I live in the sky, not in the clouds, which are so many words held together. Remove the verbiage and what remains? Truth remains.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

In the great mirror of consciousness, images arise and disappear and only memory gives them continuity. And memory is material - destructible, perishable, transient. On such flimsy foundations we build a sense of personal existence - vague, intermittent, dreamlike. This vague persuasion, “I am so-and-so,” obscures the changeless state of pure awareness and makes us believe that we are born to suffer and to die.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The scriptures say that we have our ‘karma’ and our sin and that is why we are here, but this is for the ignorant masses. One who has realized the self-knowledge ‘I am’ for him these stories are of no use.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

To be is to suffer. The narrower the circle of my self-identification, the more acute the suffering caused by desire and fear.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness - your own or another’s.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Our minds are just waves on the ocean of consciousness. As waves, they come and go. As ocean, they are infinite and eternal. Know yourself as the ocean of being, the womb of all existence.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind and it will be flooded with light.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all.It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Once you can say with confidence born from direct experience, “I am the world, the world is myself,” you are free from desire and fear on one hand and become totally responsible for the world on the other.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

When there is total surrender, complete relinquishment of all concern with one’s past, present and future, with one’s physical and spiritual security and standing, a new life dawns, full of love and beauty; then the guru is not important, for the disciple has broken the shell of self-defense. Complete self-surrender is liberation by itself.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The light which you see outside arises from your own light. The light of the sun and the moon cannot be compared to the light of your Self.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Know yourself as beyond space and time - in contact with them only at the point of here and now, otherwise all-pervading and all-containing, unapproachable, unassailable, invulnerable - you will be afraid no longer. Know yourself as you are - against fear there is no other remedy.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is only when you are satiated with the changeable and long for the unchangeable that you are ready for turning around and stepping into what can be described (when seen from the level of the mind) as emptiness and darkness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing - food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive yourself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Pain and pleasure are the crests and valleys of the waves in the ocean of bliss. Deep down there is utter fullness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happiness is never your own; it is where the “I” is not.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

On the verbal level everything is relative. Absolutes should be experienced, not discussed.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

Ramana Maharshi

There is neither creation nor destruction,neither destiny nor free will, neitherpath nor achievement.This is the final truth.

Ramana Maharshi

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

Ramana Maharshi

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I am”, and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the “I am”. Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

Ramana Maharshi

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever youthink it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If youcall it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, youdivide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc.Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge. But some of theserules and discipline are good for beginners.

Ramana Maharshi

Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.

Ramana Maharshi

Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

Ramana Maharshi

Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.

Ramana Maharshi

The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.

Ramana Maharshi

Solitude is in the mind of man. One might be in the thick of the world and maintain serenity of mind; such a one is in solitude. Another may stay in a forest, but still be unable to control his mind. He cannot be said to be in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind. A man attached to desire cannot get solitude wherever he may be; a detached man is always in solitude.

Ramana Maharshi

People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.

Ramana Maharshi

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual

Ramana Maharshi

The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

Ramana Maharshi

That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one’s own source, the Heart.

Ramana Maharshi

Thoughts of bondage and of freedom last only as long as one feels, ‘I am bound’. When one enquires of oneself, ‘Who am I, the bound one?’ the Self, Eternal, ever free, remains. The thought of bondage goes; and with it goes the thought of freedom too.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace is your natural state. It is your mind that destroys it.

Ramana Maharshi

Gods and goddesses, merits, demerits and their fruits, which are likewise anya (other than oneself), objects of attachment and the knowledge of those objects — all these will lead one to bondage in mighty samsara.

Ramana Maharshi

The beginningless Consciousness is unborn, whole and, residing forever in its natural home of the Heart-cave, is without form, world or impurity. It is beyond comparison and completely unattached. It cannot be comprehended by the mind nor can it be seen or felt by the senses.

Ramana Maharshi

Self is only Being – not this or that. It is Simple Being. BE, and that is the end of ignorance. Your duty is not to be this or that. I am that I am sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words Be still. Be as you really are. Be yourself and nothing more. Remain aware of yourself and all else will be known

Ramana Maharshi

there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.

Ramana Maharshi

So long as they make efforts they will not be sages (jnanis).

Ramana Maharshi

so the force of the Self also travels through the psychic nerves and, pervading the entire body, imparts sentience to the senses, and that if this knot is cut, the Self will remain as it always is, without any attributes.

Ramana Maharshi

Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.

Ramana Maharshi

It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.

Ramana Maharshi

All religions first postulate three principles, the world, the soul and God. To say that one principle alone appears as the three principles or that the three principles are always three principles is possible only as long as the ego exists.1

Ramana Maharshi

Do your actions without caring for the result. Do not think that you are the doer. Dedicate the work to God.

Ramana Maharshi

Be as you are.

Ramana Maharshi

As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep when there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form "Who am I?", is the principal means.

Ramana Maharshi

Of all yogins, only he who rests his unwavering mind and love in me is dear to me.

Ramana Maharshi

Did you know your kinsmen before their birth that you should seek to know them after their death?

Ramana Maharshi

Never mind the mind. If its source is sought, it will vanish leaving the Self unaffected.

Ramana Maharshi

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

Ramana Maharshi

Therefore, when the world appears (to be real), the Self does not appear; and when the Self appears (shines) the world does not appear.

Ramana Maharshi

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Sri Aurobindo

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Sri Aurobindo

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

Sri Aurobindo

Transcendence transfigures; it does not reconcile, but rather transmutes opposites into something surpassing them that effaces their oppositions.

Sri Aurobindo

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

Sri Aurobindo

The only necessity in this sadhana is to open yourself to the Divine Force; if one is open the necessary understanding or knowledge will come of itself through spiritual experience.

Sri Aurobindo

A thinking puppet is the mind of life: Its choice is the work of elemental strengths That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve. In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull, Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things, The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred waysAnd feels the push but not the hands that drive. For none can see the masked ironic troupe To whom our figure-selves are marionettes, Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp, Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.

Sri Aurobindo

Anything else one may doubt but that he who desires only the Divine shall reach the Divine is a certitude and more certain than two and two make four.

Sri Aurobindo

For it is because he acts ignorantly, with a wrong intelligence and therefore a wrong will in these matters, that man is or seems to be bound by his works; otherwise works are no bondage to the free soul.

Sri Aurobindo

A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme: His nature we must put on as he put ours; We are sons of God and must be even as he: His human portion, we must grow divine. Our life is a paradox with God for key.

Sri Aurobindo

We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future.

Sri Aurobindo

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Sri Aurobindo

You have to put your inner will and the Mother's light on the vital so that it shall change, not leave it to do what it likes. The Mother's force or the psychic can act, but on condition that the assent of the being is there.

Sri Aurobindo

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

[on the secret to a happy, content life]Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The significance of life is living.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Most of us have fear in one form or another; and where there is fear there is no intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

an idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only when the brain has cleansed itself of its conditioning, greed, envy, ambition, then only it can comprehend that which is complete. Love is this completeness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the individual is in conflict within himself he must inevitably create conflict without, and only he can bring about peace within himself and so in the world, for he is the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So as long as the mind is comparing, there is no love, and the mind is always judging, comparing, weighing, looking to find out where the weakness is. So where there is comparison, there is no love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

No one can describe reality. You must experience it, see it, feel the whole atmosphere of it

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To have intelligence there must be freedom, and you cannot be free if you are constantly being urged to become like some hero, for then the hero is important and not you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It rained last night heavily, and now the skies are beginning to clear; it is a new fresh day. Let us meet that fresh day as if it were the only day. Let us start on our journey together with all the remembrance of yesterday left behind—and begin to understand ourselves for the first time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without inner revolution outer action is repetitive.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the whole operation of one’s own mind requires a great deal of insight, a great deal of inquiry without condemnation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought is the origin of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear...It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The idea is not love. The idea, the word is not love. But only when you have seen the whole movement of desire, attachment, pleasure, then out of that depth of perception comes this strange flower with its extraordinary perfume. That is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there's a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Study then, but study first that which will most help you to help others. Work patiently at your studies, not that men may think you wise, not even that you may have the happiness of being wise, but because only the wise man can be wisely helpful.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the house is on fire, do you argue the color of the skin of the man who brings the water?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real peace is as creative and as pure as war is destructive; and to find that peace, one must understand beauty.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A problem exists only when the mind desires to get somewhere, to achieve, to become something.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The problem now arises of the observer and the observed. The observer says, “I am empty; I don’t like it,” and runs away from it. The observer says, “I am different from the emptiness.” But the observer is the emptiness; it is not emptiness seen by an observer. The observer is the observed. There is a tremendous revolution in thinking, in feeling, when that takes place.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So love is not a thing of the mind. It is only when the mind is really quiet, when it is no longer expecting, asking, demanding, seeking, possessing, being jealous, fearful, anxious—when the mind is really silent, only then is there a possibility of love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more!

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you do not change now your future will be the same. This is logical. This is sane.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is to find out if there is a field not already contaminated by the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

That is the first thing to learn – not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We often speak of something taxing a person's patience, but we really mean that it taxes a person's attention, for impatience is only the desire of the mind to attend to something more interesting than that which for the moment occupies it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Be simple.. .and don’t try to become something or to capture some experience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Systems, whether educational or political, are not changed mysteriously; they are transformed when there is a fundamental change in ourselves.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do you not know that when you love someone, you love the whole of mankind? Do you not know how dangerous it is to love man? Then, there is no barrier, no nationality; then, there is no craving for power and position, and things assume their values. Such a man is a danger to society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So do not misunderstand the word passion. It is not an ugly word; it is not a thing you can buy in the market or talk about romantically. It has nothing whatever to do with emotion, feeling. It is not a respectable thing; it is a flame that destroys anything that is false. And we are always so afraid to allow that flame to devour the things that we hold dear, the things that we call important.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Process of comparison and condemnation prevents you from observing, studying. So a real student is one who observes everything in life, outwardly as well as inwardly, without comparing, approving, or condemning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Where jealousy is, obviously love is not; and yet with most people, jealousy is taken as an indication of love. Jealousy

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We carry our burdens all the time; we never die to them, we never leave them behind. It is only when we give complete attention to a problem and solve it immediately – never carrying it over to the next day, the next minute – that there is solitude. Then, even, if we live in a crowded house or are in a bus, we have solitude. And that solitude indicates a fresh mind, an innocent mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You do not say, “I love the whole world,” but when you know how to love one, you know how to love the whole. Because we do not know how to love one, our love of humanity is fictitious. When you love, there is neither one nor many: there is only love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sorrow may be controlled, disciplined, subjugated, rationalized, super-refined, but the potential quality of sorrow is still there; and to be free from sorrow, there must be freedom from this potentiality, from this seed of the ‘I’, the self, from the whole process of becoming.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The truth is that as long as there is a point in the mind which is moving toward another point, that is, as long as the mind is seeking security in any form, it will never be free from pain. Security is dependency, and a mind that depends has no love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you compare yourself with another, ideologically, psychologically, or even physically, there is the striving to become that; and there is the fear that you may not. It is the desire to fulfil and you may not be able to fulfil. Where there is comparison there must be fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Music is the break between two notes.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can be converted from one belief to another, from one dogma to another, but you cannot be converted to the under standing of reality. Belief is not reality. You

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Each of us has an image of what we think we are or what we should be, and that image, that picture, entirely prevents us from seeing ourselves as we actually are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is reality, God, or whatever name you may give it, a fixed abode with a permanent address? “Of course not,” said the brother eagerly. Then how can there be a path to it? Surely, truth has no path.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge is a flash of light between two darknesses; but knowledge cannot go above and beyond that darkness. Knowledge is essential to technique, as coal to the engine; but it cannot reach out into the unknown. The unknown is not to be caught in the net of the known. Knowledge must be set aside for the unknown to be; but how difficult that is!

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So learning about pleasure, about fear, really frees you from the tortures of fear and the pursuit of pleasure. Then there is a sense of real enjoyment in life. Everything becomes a great joy. It isn’t just a monotonous routine, going to the office, sex, and money.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We carry about with us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that totally is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young—not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age—and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only the innocent mind can inquire into the unknown. But the calculated innocence which may wear a loincloth or the robe of a monk is not that passion of self-abandonment from which come courtesy, gentleness, humility, patience—the expressions of love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is action. Life is a series of continuous, endless action until you die. Action born of desire is distorted, is limited, and this limited action must invariably, do what you will, bring about endless conflict. Anything that is limited must in its very nature breed many problems, crises.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am sure you have been brought up in the school of “must” and “must not” and hence, you have destroyed thought and feeling. You have been bound and crippled by systems, methods, by your teachers. So leave all those “musts” and “must nots.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

He who has identified him self can never know freedom, in which alone all truth comes into being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is not to be conquered; you cannot storm it; it will slip through your hands if you try to grasp it. Truth comes silently, without your knowing. What you know is not truth, it is only an idea, a symbol. The shadow is not the real.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We must be aware of our conditioning and its responses, both collective and personal. It isonly when one is fully aware of the activities of the self with its contradictory desires and pursuits,its hopes and fears, that there is a possibility of going beyond the self.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So, the questioner wants to know why it is that he cannot go beyond all these superficial wrangles of the mind. For the simple reason that, consciously or unconsciously, the mind is always seeking something, and that very search brings violence, competition, the sense of utter dissatisfaction. It is only when the mind is completely still that there is a possibility of touching the deep waters.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The problem of sex, which is now so important, so vast in our lives, loses it's meaning when there is the tenderness, the warmth, the kindliness, the mercy of love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind pursues that which it has experienced, but that which it has experienced is already over, dead, gone. To discover that which is, the mind must die to that which it has experienced.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought with its emotional and sensational content, is not love. Thought

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought as knowledge has its right place, but it has no place in the psyche.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you do not allow time, or never think in terms of time, then the fact is not. Because we allow time the fact becomes important. If there is no time it is resolved.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Then what is love? Obviously, it can only happen when there are no longer all the things that are not love, like ambition, competition, wanting to become somebody. That is our life: We want to be somebody famous, to fulfil, know, become a writer, an artist, something bigger. All that is what we want. Can such a man or woman know what love is?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought in human relationships is always demanding pleasure which it covers by different words like loyalty, helping, giving, sustaining, serving.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can form other organizations and expect someone else. With that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Before you can act fully and truly, you must know the prison in which you are living, how it has been created; and in examining it without any self-defense you will find out for yourself its true significance, which no other can convey to you. Through your own awakening of intelligence, through your own suffering you will discover the manner of true fulfillment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

it is love alone that can solve all our human problems.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The left, after all, is he continuation of the right in modifies form

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can we change our life? To have no conflict at all in our life, because conflict is part of violence —is that possible? This constant struggle to be something is the basis of our life, the struggle to struggle. Can we, as human beings, living in this world, change ourselves?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding is now or never; it is a destructive flash, not a tame affair; it is this shattering that one is afraid of and so one avoids it, knowingly or unknowingly. Understanding may alter the course of one's life, the way of thought and action; it may be pleasant or not but understanding is a danger to all relationship. But without understanding, sorrow will continue.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The saint who seeks a position in regard to his saintliness is as aggressive as the chicken pecking in the farmyard.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is confusion? Confusion exists only when there is the fact plus what I think about the fact: my opinion about the fact, my disregard of the fact, my evasion of the fact, my evaluation of the fact, and so on. If I can look at the fact without the additive quality, then there is no confusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love must exist with freedom. Not the freedom to do what I like—that is nonsense; freedom of choice, and so on, has no value in what we are talking about—but there must be total freedom to love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Anything I fight, I am giving life to. If I fight an idea, I am giving life to that idea; if I fight you, I am giving you life to fight me.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you seek you are really only window-shopping.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sir, love is not directed to something. The sunshine is not directed to you and me; it is there.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

THOUGHT IS movement between “what is” and “what should be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be sensitive to the beauty of something is to perceive the totality of it. The mind that is thinking in terms of a part can never perceive the whole. In the whole the part is contained, but the part will never make up the whole, the total.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our fear is not of the unknown, but of letting go of the known. It is only when the mind allows the known to fade away that there is complete freedom from the known, and only then is it possible for the new impulse to come into being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Creativeness is quite a different state of being, is it not? It is a state in which the self is absent, in which the mind is no longer a focus of our experiences, our ambitions, our pursuits and our desires. Creativeness is not a continuous state, it is new from moment to moment, it is a movement in

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is like going to a well, the waters of which are inexhaustible, with a pitcher that is always empty. The pitcher can never be filled. What is important is the drinking of the waters and not how full the pitcher is. The pitcher must be broken to drink the water. The pitcher is the centre which is always seeking—and so it can never find.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is good to see what is beautiful, but you must also observe the ugly things of life, you must be awake to everything.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Inwardly we are whirlpools of misery and mischief and therefore to be regarded outwardly as a great figure is very gratifying.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man has lived on propaganda ranging from Soap to God.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When I look to see the world I look for my wife in the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Discipline is the cultivation of resistance, and where there is resistance there is no understanding. A well disciplined mind is not a free mind, and it is only in freedom that any discovery can be made.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no belief demanded or asked, there are no followers, there are no cults, there is no persuasion of any kind, in any direction, and therefore only then we can meet on the same platform, on the same ground, at the same level. Then we can together observe the extraordinary phenomena of human existence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But the real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is—and that is the beauty of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is the only revolution.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

that you can think clearly, simply and directly only when your mind is no longer pursuing any form of security and is therefore free of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To create a different society, a society that is essentially good, in the context in which we are using that word, demands great energy. This demands your attention; that means your energy. Human beings have plenty of energy; when they want to do something, they do it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you are to discover for yourself what is the new, it is no good carrying the burden of the old, especially knowledge—the knowledge of another, however great.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

That is the beauty of truth; it remains timelessly the unknown, and a mind that is the result of the known can never grasp it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One thought is trying to suppress another thought, so there is conflict, a battle is going on. When I see this as a fact - see it totally, understand it completely, have an insight into it, in the sense that gentleman used the word - then the mind is quiet. This comes about naturally and easily when the mind is quiet to watch, to look, to see.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Whatever you do within the field of this consciousness, sorrow can never end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You raised a question: what is sacred Without finding that, without coming upon it - not you finding it - without thatcoming into being, you cannot have a new culture, you cannot have a new human quality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must distinguish between truth and falsehood; you must learn to be true all through, in thought and word and deed. In thought first; and that is not easy, for there are in the world many untrue thoughts, many foolish superstitions, and no one who is enslaved by them can make progress.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Until you really approach all of life with your intelligence, instead of merely with your intellect, no system in the world will save man from the ceaseless toil for bread.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind is awakened through a shock, which you call suffering, that is the true moment to inquire into the cause of suffering, without seeking comfort.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am aware of myself and my activities when I am pursuing virtue consciously. Surely a man who pursues virtue consciously is unvirtuous. Humility cannot be pursued, and that is the beauty of humility.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation ist das Wirken der Stille.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Whatever you forget, is not the truth, always remember that.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

A quiet mind is all you need.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Your High opinion of me is your opinion only. Any moment you may change it. Why attach importance to opinions, even your own ?

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no 'I am'. The 'I am' merges in the Absolute.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is because the universe is as it is.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I am’ itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own; it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Truth is simple and available to all: why do you complicate? Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all.It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble. It always wants, expects, demands. Being false, it is empty, always in search of confirmation and reassurance. It is afraid of and avoids inquiry. It identifies itself with any support, however weak and momentary. Whatever it gets, it loses and asks for more.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The world is but a show, glittering and empty. It is, and yet it is not. It is there as long as I want to see it and take part in it. When I cease caring, it dissolves. It has no cause and serves no purpose. It just happens when we are absent-minded. It appears exactly as it looks, but there is no depth in it, nor meaning. Only the onlooker is real, call him Self or Atma. To the Self, the world is but a colorful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear, he enjoys it, as it happens.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

In reality, nothing happens. Onto the screen of the mind, destiny forever projects its pictures, memories of former projections, and thus illusion constantly renews itself. The pictures come and go - light intercepted by ignorance. See the light and disregard the picture.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freedom means letting go. People just do not care to let go of everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. The giving up is the first step. But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The sensation of beingness is a matter of experience, but I am beyond that. Some people claim that they have memories of past lives. I do not have even the experience of myself at anytime.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

What refuses to die cannot be reborn.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make your hooks straight and nothing can hold you.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You are concerned with your own happiness and I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own, it is where the ‘I’ is not.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The door that locks you in is also the door that lets you out. The “I am” is the door. Stay at it until it opens … It is only when you cannot come and go freely that the house becomes a jail. I move in and out of consciousness easily and naturally and therefore to me, the world is a home, not a prison.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Don’t try to reform yourself; just see the futility of all change. The changeful keeps on changing while the changeless is waiting.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Since time immemorial the dust of events has been covering the clear mirror of your mind, so that you could see only memories. Brush off the dust before it has time to settle; this will lay bare the old layers, until the true nature of your mind is discovered… Dispassion, detachment, freedom from desire and fear, from all self-concern, mere awareness - free from memory and expectation - this is the state of mind in which discovery can happen. After all, liberation is but the freedom to discover.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You cannot be alive, for you are life itself.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you love the Self and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. All distinctions lose their meaning. Love of one and love of all merge together in love, pure and simple, addressed to none, denied to none. Stay in that love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate yourself and love the investigation, and you will solve not only your own problems but also the problems of humanity. You will know what to do.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

It does not matter much what happens, for ultimately the return to balance and harmony is inevitable. The heart of things is at peace.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

As you watch your mind, you discover yourself as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover yourself as the light behind the watcher.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Keep the “I am” in the focus of awareness; remember that you are; watch yourself ceaselessly and the unconscious will flow into the conscious without any special effort on your part. Wrong desires and fears, false ideas, social inhibitions are blocking and preventing its free interplay with the conscious. Once free to mingle, the two become one and the one becomes all. The person merges into the witness, the witness into awareness, awareness into pure being, yet identity is not lost, only its limitations are lost. It is transfigured and becomes the real Self, the sadguru, the eternal friend and guide.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Humanity's problem lies in this misuse of the mind only. All the treasures of nature and spirit are open to man who will use his mind rightly.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

Ramana Maharshi

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

Ramana Maharshi

All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

Ramana Maharshi

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Ramana Maharshi

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.

Ramana Maharshi

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

Ramana Maharshi

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Ramana Maharshi

Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you

Ramana Maharshi

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.

Ramana Maharshi

You are already that which you seek.

Ramana Maharshi

Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.

Ramana Maharshi

To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God.

Ramana Maharshi

One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.

Ramana Maharshi

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Ramana Maharshi

I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove.

Ramana Maharshi

Enlightened enquiry alone leads to liberation. Supernatural powers are all illusory appearances created by the power of maya (mayashakti). Self-realization which is permanent is the only true accomplishment (siddhi). Accomplishments which appear and disappear, being the effect of maya, cannot be real. They are accomplished with the object of enjoying fame, pleasures, etc. They come unsought to some persons through their karma. Know that union with Brahman is the real aim of all accomplishments. This is also the state of liberation (aikya mukti) known as union (sayujya).

Ramana Maharshi

While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden, grimacing like an image on a tower, seeming to support it. If the traveller in a carriage, which can carry any weight, does not lay his luggage down but carries it painfully on his head, whose is the fault?

Ramana Maharshi

Giving up all notions about country, caste, blemishless community,asrama (status as a bachelor, family man, ascetic or one who has renounced the world) and associated matters, hold on to and practise always meditation upon the Self, your own natural state.

Ramana Maharshi

If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.

Ramana Maharshi

The sense of “I” pertains to the person, the body and the brain. When anyone knows true Being for the first time, something else arises from the depths and takes possession... That something is behind the mind; it is infinite, divine, eternal. Some people call it the Kingdom of Heaven, others call it the soul, and others again Nirvana, and Hindus call it liberation; you may give it what name you wish.

Ramana Maharshi

Be equally indifferent to both and abide in the faith of God. That will be so only when one’s faith is strong that God looks after all of us.

Ramana Maharshi

Finally there comes a stage when a person feels helpless notwithstanding the sadhanas. He is unable to pursue the much-cherished sadhana also. It is then that Gods power is realized. The self reveals itself.

Ramana Maharshi

They say that there are many saints in Tibet who remain in solitude and are still very helpful to the world... "It can be so. Realisation of the Self is the greatest help that can be rendered to humanity. Therefore, the saints are said to be helpful, though they remain in forests. But it should not be forgotten that solitude is not in forest only. It can be had even in towns, in the thick of worldly occupations.

Ramana Maharshi

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself. Do not worry about the future.

Ramana Maharshi

The body which is matter says not ‘I’. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of ‘I’. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

Ramana Maharshi

Prayer is not verbal; it is from the Heart. To merge into the Heart is prayer. That is also Grace.

Ramana Maharshi

Divine Grace is essential for realization. It leads one to God-realization. But such Grace is vouchsafed only to him who is a true devotee or a yogin, who has striven hard and ceaselessly on the path towards freedom.

Ramana Maharshi

All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true.

Ramana Maharshi

How can the intellect which can never reach the Self be competent to ascertain, and much less decide the nature of the final state of Realization? It is like trying to measure the sunlight at its source by the standard of the light given by a candle. The wax will melt down before the candle comes anywhere near

Ramana Maharshi

Realization is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought ‘I have not realised’.

Ramana Maharshi

If the idea ‘I am the body’ is accepted, the selves are multiple. The state in which this idea vanishes is the Self since in that state there are no other objects.

Ramana Maharshi

Not leaving the Self is wisdom.

Ramana Maharshi

The sense of “I” pertains to the person, the body and the brain. When anyone knows true Being for the first time, something else arises from the depths and takes possession...That some- thing is behind the mind; it is infinite, divine, eternal. Some people call it the Kingdom of Heaven, others call it the soul, and others again Nirvana, and Hindus call it liberation; you may give it what name you wish.

Ramana Maharshi

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

Sri Aurobindo

My love is not a hunger of the heart, My love is not a craving of the flesh; It came to me from God, to God returns.

Sri Aurobindo

All problems of existence are essentially problems of Harmony.

Sri Aurobindo

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

Sri Aurobindo

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full andfree done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.

Sri Aurobindo

For me the path of Yoga has always been a battle as well as a journey, a thing of ups and downs, of light followed by darkness followed by a greater light.

Sri Aurobindo

Remain fixed in the sunlight of the true consciousness - for only there is happiness and peace. They do not depend upon outside happenings, but on this alone.

Sri Aurobindo

I become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man’s unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him.

Sri Aurobindo

The psychic being is a portion of the Divine; it has a natural attraction for the truth and the Divine but that attraction is desireless, free from demands and lower cravings. The psychic emotion is pure and stainless.

Sri Aurobindo

There is no logical necessity for the conclusion that the change cannot begin at all because its perfection is not immediately possible.

Sri Aurobindo

There can be no immortality of the body without supramentalisation; the potentiality is there in the yogic force and yogis can live for 200 or 300 years or more, but there can be no real principle of it without the supramental.

Sri Aurobindo

Keep yourself open to the Mother and in perfect union with her. Make yourself entirely plastic to her touch and let her mould you swiftly towards perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We want to make life permanent, but in doing so we go against nature, and there lies our pain. Only the mind which is always moving, without resting places and fixed ideas, can be in tune with life and therefore joyful.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The question of whether or not there is a God or Truth or Reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosphers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know your self. Immaturity lies in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either they key or the door to open, except yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

the question is not how to get rid of fear, but how to awaken the intelligence with which to face and to understand and go beyond fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with the total welfare, the total misery and total confusion of the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To compare is the very nature of a mind that is not awake to discover what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Organized religion is the frozen thought of man, out of which he builds temples and churches; it has become a solace for the fearful, an opiate for those who are in sorrow. But God or truth is far beyond thought and emotional demands.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves... The actual relationship between two human beings or between many human beings completely ends when there is the formation of images.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity: it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So you must do right for the sake of the right, not in the hope of reward; you must work for the sake of the work, not in the hope of seeing the result; you must give yourself to the service of the world because you love it, and cannot help giving yourself to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind can only gather, accumulate, deny, assert, remember, pursue. Peace is absolutely essential, because without peace we cannot live creatively.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Peace is not something between two wars, or the peace of the politician. Peace is something entirely different.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Whatever the one generation may learn from the other, that which is genuinely human no generation learns from the foregoing...Thus no generation has learned from another to love, no generation begins at any other point than at the beginning, no generation has a shorter task assigned to it than had the previous generation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you say you love God what does it mean? It means that you love a projection of your own imagination, a projection of yourself clothed in certain forms of respectability according to what you think is noble and holy; so to say, ‘I love God’, is absolute nonsense. When you worship God you are worshipping yourself – and that is not love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that listens with complete attention will never look for a result because it is constantly unfolding; like a river, it is always in movement. Such a mind is totally unconscious of its own activity, in the sense that there is no perpetuation of a self, of a “me,” which is seeking to achieve an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of being alone? Because you are faced with yourself as you are and you find that you are empty, dull, stupid, ugly, guilty and anxious - a petty, shoddy, secondhand entity. Face the fact; look at it, do not run away from it. The moment you run away fear begins.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moment you are conscious that you are humble, you are not humble. So happiness is not a thing to be pursued; it comes. But if you seek it, it will evade you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Dying is part of living. You cannot love without dying, dying to everything which is not love, dying to all ideals which are the projection of your own demands, dying to all the past, to the experience, so that you know what love means and therefore what living means. So living, loving and dying are the same thing, which consists in living wholly, completely, now.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A body that is not kept clean, that is sloppy and does not hold itself in good posture, is not conducive to sensitivity of mind and emotions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When there is love, self is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

That which is immeasurable cannot be measured by words. We are always trying to put the immeasurable into a frame of words, and the symbol is not the actual. But we worship the symbol, therefore we always live in a limited state.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be free we have to revolt against all inward dependence, and we cannot revolt if we don’t understand why we are dependent. Until we understand and really break away from all inward dependence we can never be free, for only in that understanding can there be freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why is there this everlasting craving to be loved?Listen carefully. You want to be loved because youdo not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring wether or not somebody loves you. As long as you demand to be loved, there is no love in you; and if you feel no love you are ugly, brutish, so why should you be loved?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Peace is a state of mind; it is the freedom from all desire to be secure. The mind-heart that seeks security must always be in the shadow of fear. Our desire is not only for material security, but much more for inner, psychological security, and it is this desire to be inwardly secure through virtue, through belief, through a nation, that creates limiting and so conflicting groups and ideas.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no complexity in what is, but only in the many escapes that we seek.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We must concern ourselves not with what is beyond life, or what is life, or what is the purpose of life, but rather with the understanding of this complex existence of everyday life, because that is the foundation upon which we must build.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But sorrow is not to be compared. Comparison breeds self-pity, and then misfortune ensues. Adversity is to be met directly, not with the idea that yours is greater than another’s.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is so much easier to throw oneself into social and political activity than to understand life as a whole; to be associated with any organized thought, with political or religious activity, offers a respectable escape from the pettiness and drudgery of everyday life. With

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We never actually listen to what somebody else is saying. We are always translating what others are saying.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you want to understand the beauty of a bird, a fly, or a leaf, or a person with all his complexities, you have to give your whole attention which is awareness. And you can give your whole attention only when you care, which means that you really love to understand – then you give your whole heart and mind to find out.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand; for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom is space, and space is order.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is really extraordinarily interesting to watch the operation of one’s own thinking, just to observe how one thinks, where that reaction we call thinking, springs from. Obviously from memory. Is there a beginning to thought at all? If there is, can we find out its beginning – that is, the beginning of memory, because if we had no memory we would have no thought?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is in everyone; it is not far, it is not near; it is eternally there.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Andar sempre a procura de «experiências transcendentes», mais variadas e intensas, é uma forma de fugir da realidade presente, daquilo que é, ou seja, de nós mesmos, da nossa própria mente condicionada. Uma mente desperta, inteligente, livre, que necessidade tem dessas experiências? A luz é luz, não anda à procura de mais luz.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have no shelter outwardly or inwardly; have a room, or a house, or a family, but don’t let it become a hiding place, an escape from yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth has no continuity. It is the mind that wants to make the experience which it calls truth continuous, and such a mind shall not know truth. Truth is always new; it is to see the same smile, and see that smile newly, to see the same person, and see that person anew, to see the waving palms anew, to meet life anew.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self-expansion in any form, whether through wealth or through virtue, is a process of conflict, causing antagonism and confusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But self-knowledge cannot be imposed, understanding cannot be compelled; and if this is a vital problem to you and me, to the parent and the teacher, then together we shall create schools of the right kind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important to them, for these hide their inward poverty.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little in itself. What is important is to be wholly discontented, for such total discontent is the beginning of the initiative which becomes creative as it matures; and that is the only way to find out what is truth, what is God, because the creative state is God.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind finds security and strength in religious and political patterns, and this is what gives stamina to the organizations.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every demand for a method indicates the desire to escape. You want me to lay down a system so that you may imitate that system. In other words, you want a system invented for you to superimpose on those conditions which are creating conflict, so that you can escape from all conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Living in such a corrupt, stupid society as we do, with the competitive education we receive which engenders fear, we are all burdened with fears of some king, and fear is a dreadful thing which warps, twists, and dulls our days.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are human beings, not Asiatics and Americans, Russians and Germans, communists and capitalists. We all have the same human problems.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The bliss of truth comes when the mind is not occupied with its own activities and struggles.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is not something that can be followed; it has to be discovered. You cannot find truth through any book or through any accumulation of experience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who is trying to become something is ugly, insensitive; he is a crude person.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is a far deeper kind of dependence which one must understand before one can be free: the dependence on another for one’s happiness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ideas always breed enmity, confusion, conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand death is to understand something which is closely related to life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am that.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you ever tried living with yourself? If so, you will begin to see that your self is not a static state, it is a fresh living thing. And to live with a living thing your mind must also be alive. And it cannot be alive if it is caught in opinions, judgments, and values.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So long as there is a desire for self-continuance in any form, there must be fear, which creates authority, and from this there come the subtle cruelty and stupidity of submitting oneself to exploitation. This exploitation is so subtle, so refined, that one becomes enamored of it, calling it spiritual progress and advancement toward perfection.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the under standing of a problem. This freedom gives the ease of full attention; the mind is not distracted by any secondary issues.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To love a person with your whole being, with your mind, heart, and body, requires great intensity; and when love is intense, desire soon disappears. But most of us have never had this intensity about anything, except about our own profit, conscious or unconscious; we never feel for anything without seeking something else out of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To go beyond, there must be the cessation of this process. But if you say, “How am I to go beyond?” then the “how” becomes the method, the practice, which is still progress, therefore there is no going beyond but only the refinement of consciousness in sorrow. I hope you are getting this.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you know how to love, then you can do what you like because it will solve all other problems.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in—at a face, a bird, the color of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives delight—if you can look at it without wanting the experience to be repeated, then there will be no pain, no fear and, therefore, tremendous joy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ideas are not truth; and truth is something that must be experienced directly, from moment to moment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

How to be simple, then, is the problem; because that simplicity makes one more and more sensitive. A sensitive mind, a sensitive heart, is essential, for then it is capable of quick perception, quick reception.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand and withstand the pressure of tradition you must have, not strength, but confidence—the tremendous confidence which comes when you know how to think things out for yourself. But you see, your education does not teach you how to think; it tells you what to think.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To learn, to discover, something fundamental you must have the capacity to go deeply.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pleasure is sustained by thought; therefore thought is not love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is it not possible to live in this world without ambition, just being what you are?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Revolution must take place within, not merely outwardly.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

but if you follow what the psychologist says or what I say, you are understanding our theories, our dogmas, our knowledge; you are not understanding yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the minds is not influenced and contaminated by society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as there is conflict, it indicates that we have not understood the conditions placed about us; and that movement of environment remains false so long as we do not inquire into its significance, and we can only discover it in that state of acute consciousness of suffering.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you quote the Bhagavad Gita, or the Bible, or some Chinese Sacred Book, surely you are merely repeating, are you not? And what you are repeating is not the truth. It is a lie; for truth cannot be repeated.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wisdom is greater than saintliness, for wisdom comes with the ending of sorrow. And the understanding of sorrow is to understand oneself. Then in the understanding of oneself so completely, there is quietness, there is beauty.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A human being living an ordinary everyday life in this brutal, violent, ruthless world – a world which is becoming more and more efficient and therefore more and more ruthless

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But when you are completely attentive with that attention in which there is no object because there is no process of acquiring, no cultivation of the will to achieve a result, then you will find that the mind is extraordinarily steady, inwardly still—and it is only the still mind that is free to discover or let that reality come into being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You cling to it because that is the only moment you are happy…. So, sex becomes an extraordinarily difficult and complex problem as long as you do not understand the mind that thinks about the problem

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life is really very beautiful, it is not this ugly thing that we have made of it; and you can appreciate its richness, its depth, its extraordinary loveliness only when you revolt against everything—against organized religion, against tradition, against the present rotten society—so that you as a human being find out for yourself what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When one sees life as it is, when one sees oneself as one is, [only] from there can one move [ahead].

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Conflict is the essence of the self.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am so concerned with my beastly little self, and that is part of my loneliness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Each was ardently attached to his particular form of belief, and all were in a strange way ruthless.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind. If you don’t understand your own thinking, which is self-knowledge, whatever you think has very little meaning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who is completely alone in this way is innocent and it is this innocency that frees the mind from sorrow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you can look at the facts without feelings of condemnation or approval, you will find that in the very process of looking there is a dissolution of all the barriers which the mind has erected between itself and the facts.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is progress in self-improvement—I can be better tomorrow, more kind, more generous, less envious, less ambitious. But does self-improvement bring about a complete change in one’s thinking? Or is there no change at all, but only progress?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The very act of listening is more important than the noise, so listening becomes the important thing and not the noise.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is not complex, but the mind makes it so. We are too much with the mind, and the ways of love we do not know. We know the ways of desire and the will of desire, but we do not know love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am not going to accept, I am going to investigate, explore”—which means that you are not afraid to stand alone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding is of far greater importance than arriving at an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is significant is not with what the mind is occupied but the fact of its occupation, whether it be with the kitchen, with the children, with amusement, with what kind of food you are going to have, or with virtue, with God.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

we are trying to do is to follow each other’s thoughts, to pursue as far as we can, as profoundly as we can, the intimations, the responses of our own feelings.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing, or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is the sorrow of disease, there is the sorrow that man feels in complete isolation. There is the sorrow of poverty when you see all these poor, ignorant, dirty, hopeless people. There is sorrow when you see all the animals of the world being killed, destroyed, butchered in laboratories.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Though the fox kills the chicken, and the bigger animals live on the little animals, what appears to be cruelty is a design of order in this universe, except for man. When man doesn't interfere, there is great beauty of balance and harmony.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you want to find a meaning, give full attention.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The true liberation is “an inner freedom of creative Reality”. This “is not a gift; it is to be discovered and experienced.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why do young boys fight? You sometimes fight with your brother, or with the other boys here, don’t you? Why? You fight over a toy. Perhaps another boy has taken your ball, or your book, and therefore you fight. Grown-up people fight for exactly the same reason, only their toys are position, wealth and power.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only freedom is freedom from the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You cannot be a musician by merely knowing how to sing. You may know all the steps of a dance but if you have not creation in your heart, you are only functioning as a machine. You cannot love if your object is merely to achieve a result.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.The secret is in action - here and now.It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect- whatever your idea of perfection may be.All you need is courage.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life flows.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The way back to yourself is through refusal and rejection.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

An infant knows its body, but not the body-based distinctions. It is just conscious and happy. After all, that was the purpose for which it was born. The pleasure to be is the simplest form of self-love, which later grows into love of the self. Be like an infant with nothing standing between the body and the self. The constant noise of the psychic life is absent. In deep silence the self contemplates the body. It is like the white paper on which nothing is written yet. Be like that infant, instead of trying to be this or that, be happy to be.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance -- letting come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens. Ultimately even the observer you are not. You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it -- he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling 'I am' is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Forget your past experiences and achievements and stand naked, exposed to the winds and rains of life, and you will have a chance.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q: No purposeful action is then possible?M: All I say is that consciousness contains all. In consciousness all is possible. You can have causes if you want them, in your world. Another may be content with a single cause — God’s will. The root cause is one: the sense ‘I am’.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor non-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror; it becomes a part of living.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Merely assuaging fears and satisfying desires will not remove this sense of emptiness you are trying to escape from; only self-knowledge can help you.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting that, truly, by losing all you gain all.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

By focusing the mind on “I am,” on the sense of being, “I am so-and-so” dissolves; “I am a witness only” remains and that too submerges in “I am all.” Then the all becomes the One and the One - yourself

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Our only hope is to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is this clash between desire and fear that causes anger, which is the great destroyer of sanity in life. When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, and both become experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The world is full of contradictions; hence your search for harmony and peace. These you cannot find in the world, for the world is the child of chaos. To find order you must search within.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Study the prison you have inadvertently built around yourself.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Exactly as the shadow appears when light is intercepted by the body, so does the person arise when pure self-awareness is obstructed by the “I am the body” idea. And as the shadow changes shape and position according to the lay of the land, so does the person appear to rejoice and suffer, rest and toil, find and lose, according to the pattern of destiny.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You love yourself and you want yourself to be secure and happy. Don’t be ashamed of it; don’t deny it. It is natural and good to love oneself. Only, you should know exactly what it is that you love. It is not the body that you love, it is Life: perceiving, feeling, thinking, doing, loving, striving, creating. It is that Life you love, which is you, which is all. Realize it in its totality, beyond all divisions and limitations, and all your desires will merge in it, for the greater contains the smaller. Therefore find yourself, for in finding that you find all. Everybody is glad to be. But few know the fullness of it. You come to know by dwelling in your mind on “I am,” “I know,” “I love” - with the will of reaching the deepest meaning of these words.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real guru. All others merely show the way.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

It may seem arduous, but it is easy if you are earnest, and quite impossible if you are not. Everything yields to earnestness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all. There is nothing to seek or find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the “I am.” Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge or, rather, it will take you in.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The limited is bound to be painful and pleasant in turns. If you seek real happiness, unassailable and unchangeable, you must leave the world with its pains and pleasures behind you.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I am Atma, the Self, formless, without modifications and pure,

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Ramana Maharshi

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Ramana Maharshi

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Ramana Maharshi

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Ramana Maharshi

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

Everything in the world was my Guru.

Ramana Maharshi

Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind

Ramana Maharshi

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Ramana Maharshi

The enquiry ‘Who am I?’ is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.

Ramana Maharshi

All are gurus to us, the wicked by their evil deeds say 'do not come near me'. the good are always good, therefore all are like gurus to us.

Ramana Maharshi

The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

Ramana Maharshi

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

Ramana Maharshi

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now

Ramana Maharshi

The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

The ego in its purity is experienced in intervals between two statesor two thoughts. Ego is like that caterpillar which leaves its holdonly after catching another. Its true nature can be found when it isout of contact with objects or thoughts.

Ramana Maharshi

The body is the temple; the jiva is God (Siva). If one worships him with the ‘I am He’ thought, one will gain release.

Ramana Maharshi

He who has renounced (the ‘I-thought’) thus, remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara

Ramana Maharshi

As the activities of the wise man exist only in the eyes of others and not in his own, although he may be accomplishing immense tasks, he really does nothing.

Ramana Maharshi

It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One’s source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

Ramana Maharshi

What is said is given out to suit the temperament of the hearers

Ramana Maharshi

Grace is ever present. The only thing necessary is that you surrender to it.

Ramana Maharshi

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

Ramana Maharshi

One who knows the secret of that LOVE finds the world full of Universal Love

Ramana Maharshi

In the middle of the Heart-cave the pure Brahman is directly manifest as the Self in the form of ‘I-I’.

Ramana Maharshi

The whole universe is only mental.

Ramana Maharshi

When the I is divested of the I, only the I remains.

Ramana Maharshi

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace, make it free from distractions, train it to look inward, and make all this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

Ramana Maharshi

If it is asked whether the wise man derives any benefit from the discharge of domestic duties, it may be answered that, as he has already attained the state of complete satisfaction which is the sum total of all benefits and the highest good of all, he does not stand to gain anything more by discharging family duties.

Ramana Maharshi

What the mind has to do is not to suggest a reply, but to remain quiet so that the true reply can arise.

Ramana Maharshi

God never forsakes one who has surrendered (mam ekam saranam vraja)

Ramana Maharshi

The srutis and the sages say that the objects are only mental creations. They have no substantive being. Investigate the matter and ascertain the truth of this statement. The result will be the conclusion that the objective world is in the subjective consciousness. The Self is thus the only Reality that permeates and also envelops the world. Since there is no duality, no thoughts will arise to disturb your peace. This is Realization of the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

If you take the appearance to be real you will never know the Real itself, although it is the Real alone that exists. This point is illustrated by the analogy of the ‘snake in the rope’. As long as you see the snake you cannot see the rope as such. The non-existent snake becomes real to you, while the real rope seems wholly non-existent as such.

Ramana Maharshi

You are That, here and now.

Ramana Maharshi

There is a state beyond our efforts or effortlessness. Until it is realised effort is necessary. After tasting such Bliss, even once, one will repeatedly try to regain it. Having once experienced the Bliss of Peace no one would like to be out of it or engaged himself otherwise.

Ramana Maharshi

You do not grow by acquiring something nor wither away by losing it. You remain what you always are.

Ramana Maharshi

Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Sri Aurobindo

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

Sri Aurobindo

Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart

Sri Aurobindo

I spent quite sometime just watching enthralled, the gnarled hands of Mother Teresa in a portrait because those hands are associated with bringing comfort to the aged and abandoned in Kolkata’s streets. So they are beautiful.

Sri Aurobindo

The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is the sufficient recompense of the selfless worker.

Sri Aurobindo

Courage and love are the only indispensable virtues; even if all the others are eclipsed or fall asleep, these two will save the soul alive.

Sri Aurobindo

Be thyself immortal, and put not thy faith in death; for death is not of thyself, but of thy body. For the Spirit is immortality.

Sri Aurobindo

A fugitive paradise smiles at him from her eyes: He dreams of her beauty made for ever his, He dreams of his mastery her limbs shall bear, He dreams of the magic of her breasts of bliss.

Sri Aurobindo

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Power is the strain, Knowledge is the performer, the infinite All is the composer and audience. We know only the preliminary discords which are as fierce as the harmony shall be great; but we shall arrive surely at the fugue of the divine Beatitudes.

Sri Aurobindo

The value of our actions lies not so much in their apparent nature and outward result as in their help towards the growth of the divine within us.

Sri Aurobindo

By the heart's self-giving the Presence and the Influence will be there even in the inconscience and prepare the nature for the true light and consciousness through the whole range of the being.

Sri Aurobindo

The method is to quiet the mind and, in order to do so, to concentrate on an aspiration for faith in the Divine Power, peace and calm in the mind, single-minded sincerity in the heart, and a conscious opening to the Light and Truth and Power.

Sri Aurobindo

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as one is escaping from loneliness, there is no essential difference between the worship of God and addiction to alcohol. Socially, there may be a difference; but psychologically, the man who runs away from himself, from his own emptiness, whose escape is his search for God, is on the same level as the drunkard.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only freedom is the freedom from the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is a pathless land.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living. A dead thing has a path to it because it is static, but when you see that the truth is something living, moving, which has no resting place, which is in no temple, mosque or church, which no religion, no teacher, no philosopher, nobody can lead you to - then you will also see that this living thing is what you actually are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So, while you are young you must begin to find out what is this strange thing called happiness. That is an essential part of education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you are young you are curious to know all about everything, why the sun shines, what the stars are, all about the moon and the world around us; but as we grow older, knowledge becomes a mere collection of information without any feeling.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all want to be famous people—and the moment we want to be something, we are no longer free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them...Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship is constant friction and death awaits; ideas and beliefs have no stability, no permanency. We seek happiness in them and yet do not realize their impermanency. So sorrow becomes our constant companion and overcoming it our problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One has to know what it is to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be known only by seeking them out. These implications cannot be taught, they must be learned.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The important thing is first to find out what you are afraid of, to understand it and not run away from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system necessitates; but the result will obviously not be the understanding of myself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We human beings are committed to a way of life that leads to war and yet at the same time we want peace, we want freedom; but it is peace only as an idea, as an ideology; and at the same time everything we do conditions us.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

As I said, relationship has true significance only when it is a process of self-revelation, when it is revealing oneself in the very action of relationship. But most of us do not want to be revealed in relationship.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you ever sat very silently, not with your attention fixed on anything, not making an effort to concentrate, but with the mind very quiet, really still?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth cannot be given to you by somebody. You have to discover it; and to discover, there must be a state of mind in which there is direct perception.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In understanding what beauty is, we shall know love, for the understanding of beauty is the peace of the heart.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Are we ever alone? Or are we carrying with us all the burdens of yesterday?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Silence is the break between two thoughts/noises.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

there must be freedom while we are still very young—not freedom to do what we like, but freedom to understand very deeply our own instincts and urges.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Each human being, each one of you, if I may point out, represents the whole of mankind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All of life is the study of attention; where your attention goes, your life follows.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought is really the most mischievous thing in life, the greatest criminal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But to run away from fear is only to increase it. One of the major causes of fear is that we do not want to face ourselves as we are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act. And hence there is no fear, and a mind that has no fear is capable of great love. And when there is love it can do what it will.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A profession is only a part of life; but there are also those parts which are hidden, subtle and mysterious.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

He who has forgotten his childhood and lost sympathy with the children is not a man who can teach them or help them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The pursuit, all the world over, of gurus and their systems, reading the latest books on this and that, and so on, seems to me so utterly empty, so utterly futile, for you may wander all over the earth but you have to come back to yourself. And, as most of us are totally unaware of ourselves, it is extremely difficult to begin to see clearly the process of our thinking and feeling and acting. The

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man who is fearless, who is really in revolt, struggling to find out what it means to learn, to love—such a man does not ask if it is one process or three. We are so clever with words, and we think that by offering explanations we have solved the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is a flame without smoke, ever fresh, creative, joyous. Such love is dangerous to society, to relationship. So, thought steps in, modifies, guides it, legalizes it, puts it out of danger; then one can live with it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Really to care is to care as you would for a tree or a plant, watering it, studying its needs, the best soil for it, looking after it with gentleness and tenderness - but when you prepare your children to fit into society you are preparing them to be killed. If you loved your children you would have no war

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone and are already in conflict with society; we cease to be respectable human beings. A respectable human being cannot possibly come near to that infinite, immeasurable, reality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To see that one must begin with oneself is to realize an enormous truth; but most of us overlook it; we easily brush it aside because we are concerned with the collective, with changing the social order, with trying to bring about peace and harmony in the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To know joy one must go much deeper. Joy is not mere sensation. It requires extraordinary refinement of the mind, but not the refinement of the self that gathers more and more to itself. Such a self, such a man, can never understand this state of joy in which the enjoyer is not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To experience what is solitude and what is meditation, one must be in a state of inquiry; only a mind that is in a state of inquiry is capable of learning. But when inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Your mind must be completely quiet, without a word, without a symbol, without an idea. And then you will discover—or there will come into being—that state in which what we have called love and what we have called sorrow and what we have called death are the same.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another;

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Psychologically, suffering comes through attachment—to an idea, to ideals, to opinions, to beliefs, to persons, to concepts. Please observe it in yourself. The world is the mirror in which you are looking that shows the operations of your own mind. So look there.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. There is a vast strength in being alone. It is the conditioned, programmed brain that is never alone, for it is filled with knowledge. That which is programmed, religiously or technologically, is always limited. This limitation is the major factor of conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is something that is new, fresh, alive. It has no yesterday and no tomorrow. It is beyond the turmoil of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind that is accumulating is frightened to die, and such a mind can never discover what is truth. But to a mind that is dying every minute to everything that it has experienced, there comes an astonishing vitality because every moment is new; and only then is the mind capable of discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The truth is a pathless land.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If one gets used to disturbance it means that one’s mind has become dull, just as one can get so used to beauty around one that one no longer notices it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you would discover the supreme happiness of truth, you must break away from all ceremonies and ideological patterns.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you see that you are a bundle of memories and words, the restless monkey comes to an end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We never actually listen to anything because our mind is not free; our ears are stuffed up with those things that we already know, so listening becomes extraordinarily difficult.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You say, `I will think about it; I will consider whether it is possible tobe free from violence or not. I will try to be free.' That is one of the most dreadfulstatements you can make, `I will try'. There is no trying, no doing your best. Eitheryou do it or you don't do it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is fatal to meet life with the burden of certainty, with the conceit of knowledge, because, after all, knowledge is merely a thing of the past. So when you come to that life with a freshness, then you will know what it is to live without conflict, without this continual straining effort. Then you wander far on the floods of life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Such awareness is like living with a snake in the room; you watch its every movement, you are very, very sensitive to the slightest sound it makes. Such a state of attention is total energy; in such awareness the totality of yourself is revealed in an instant.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only when I am in communion with sorrow that I understand it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is always this impermanency that has made man seek something beyond the hills, investing it with permanency, with divinity, with beauty, which he in himself has not. But this doesn’t answer his agonies, allay his sorrow or mischief. On the contrary it gives new life to his violence and cruelties. His gods, his utopias, his worship of the State do not end his suffering.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One of the odd things about love is that whatever you do will be correct if you love. When there is love, action is always right, in all circumstances. And when there is that quality of love, there is compassion. Compassion means passion for all. Compassion cannot exist, nor love, if you belong to any sect, any group, or to any organized religion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Perception can take place only in the present; but if you say : "I will do it tomorrow"; the wave of confusion over takes you, and you are then always involved in confusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The flower is strong in its beauty as it can be forgotten, set aside, or destroyed. The ambitious do not know beauty. The feeling of essence is beauty.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So there must be a revolution in thinking, a revolution in the mind itself, and not in what the mind thinks about. There is surely a vast difference between the two.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To know the mind, must you not be aware of its activities? The mind is only experience, not just the immediate, but also the accumulated. The mind is the past in response to the present, which makes for the future. The total process of the mind has to be understood.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Anything truly revolutionary is created by a few who see what is true and are willing to live according to that truth; but to discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If, with all its power and superiority, one cannot think for oneself, there can be no peace in the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mere intellect is not chastity. The man who tries to be chaste in thought is unchaste, because he has no love. Only the man who loves is chaste, pure, incorruptible.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

See what we have done. I am struggling, struggling, struggling to end struggling sometime in the future. See what tricks I have played on myself. I am caught in time. I don’t say, “Why should I struggle at all?” If I can end this struggle that is enlightenment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You see, as long as we try to overcome, the very overcoming has to be overcome. But if you say, “Yes, it is a fact and I won’t move from that,” then the thing dissolves—completely, not relatively, not gone one day and then the next day is full of fears. It is gone when you have given complete attention to

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We can all learn how to make a living: the art of living, however, we must each learn on our own.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think we do not sufficiently realize the seriousness of this. Anything really true must be totally individual—not in the sense of self-centeredness, which is very limiting and which in itself is evil, but individual in the sense that each one of us must experience for himself, uninfluenced, something which is not the outcome of any self-centered interest or drive.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

la meditación tiene un lugar en la vida diaria cuando se investiga toda la naturaleza y la estructura del propio ser: las reacciones de uno, el estado de la propia consciencia, por qué uno cree o no cree, por qué uno acepta las influencias de las instituciones, etc., todo esto es el verdadero movimiento de la meditación.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When there is that total attention given to observation, that which is observed undergoes a fundamental transformation. Got it? Do it!

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we are going to inquire into that, (religion, i.e. a life in which there is no fragmentation whatsoever) we must not only be free of all belief, but also we must be very clear about the distorting factor of all effort, direction and purpose.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is the movement of time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Relationship is a process of self-revelation, of self-knowledge. This self-revelation is painful, demanding constant adjustment, pliability of thought-emotion. It is a painful struggle, with periods of enlightened peace..

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we did not worry, most of us would feel that we were not alive; to be struggling with a problem is for the majority of us an indication of existence. We cannot imagine life with out a problem; and the more we are occupied with a problem, the more alert we think we are. The constant tension over a problem which thought itself has created only dulls the mind, making it insensitive and weary.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The mind hates to be uncertain, so it must have habits as a means of security.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The understanding of oneself is not a result, a culmination; it is seeing oneself from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship—one’s relationship to property, to things, to people and to ideas.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You are educated to fit into society; but that is not education, it is merely a process which conditions you to conform to a pattern.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is the only thing that is eternally new.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

if we as human beings saw the intimate connection between all these, between politics, religion, economics, and social life, if we saw the connection, then we would not think and act separately, individualistically.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

After all, a cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind; it is merely a repetitive mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Though one is dependent on another, there is yet the desire to be inviolate, to be whole.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If there is no me, there is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But we have never thought about unconditioning the adult mind, and not conditioning the child.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The people who are sensitive in life may suffer much more than those who are insensitive; but if they understand and go beyond their suffering they will discover extraordinary things.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But if you want to examine every thought, if you really want to see the content of it, then you will find that your thoughts slow down and you can watch them. This slowing down of thinking and the examining of every thought is the process of meditation;

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We cannot imagine life with out a problem; and the more we are occupied with a problem, the more alert we think we are. The constant tension over a problem which thought itself has created only dulls the mind, making it insensitive and weary.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, only then does that emptiness cease to be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It begins at school and you go through life repeating what others have said. You are therefore secondhand human beings. How can such a secondhand human being find out something that is original, that is true? It is very important to understand what conditioning is and to go into this very deeply; as you look at it you have the energy to break down all those conditionings that hold the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Suffering is merely that high, intense clarity of thought and emotion which forces you to recognize things as they are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am going to find out for myself whether or not there is a state beyond the framework of time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without self-knowledge, the god that you seek is the god of illusion; and illusion inevitably brings conflict and sorrow.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ver la verdad de lo que es libera del miedo a la inseguridad, ese miedo que produce apego y conduce a la ilusión del desapego y la renuncia. Amar lo que es es el principio de la sabiduría. Solo el amor comparte, solo en el amor hay comunión, mientras que la renuncia y el autosacrificio son los caminos del aislamiento y la ilusión.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

if you can see it for a fleeting second, it is enough;

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Only the mind that is not occupied with desire can understand desire.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The crisis is there. The crisis is not in the world, it is not the nuclear war, it is not the terrible divisions and the brutality that isgoing on. The crisis is in our consciousness, the crisis is what we are, what we have become.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So, what will make you change? A crisis? A knock on the head? Sorrow? Tears? All that has happened - crisis after crisis. You have shed tears endlessly, and nothing seems to change you because you are relying on somebody else to do the job... Nobody says, "I am going to find out.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain. Watch it in yourself. The very demand for the repetition of pleasure brings about pain, because it is not the same as it was yesterday. You struggle to achieve the same delight, not only to your aesthetic sense but the same inward quality of the mind, and you are hurt and disappointed because it is denied to you.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning is always in the active present, it is not the result of having accumulated knowledge; learning is a process, an action, which is always in the present.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

because it is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true,

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The eagle in its flight does not leave a mark; the scientist does.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

La méditation est un mouvement dans l’immobilité. Le silence de l’esprit caractérise l’action vraie. L’action engendrée par la pensée est une inaction, cause du désordre. Ce silence n’est pas un produit de la pensé, ou simplement la cessation de son bavardage. L’immobilité de l’esprit n’est possible que lorsque le cerveau lui-même est tranquille.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So beauty is, where you are not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You may wander all over the earth but you have to come back to yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

Nisargadatta Maharaj

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nothing ever goes wrong. (Tidak ada satu pun yang berjalan keliru)

Nisargadatta Maharaj

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.  Such moments are most desirable,  for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places.  This is detachment --  when the old is over and the new has not yet come.  If you are afraid, the state may be distressing,  but there is really nothing to be afraid of.  Remember the instruction:  Whatever you come across -- go beyond.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

All you need is already within you, only you must approach yourself with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors . . .

Nisargadatta Maharaj

I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Your ideas about yourself change from day to day and from moment to moment. Your self image is the most changeful thing you have. It is utterly vulnerable, at the mercy of a passerby. A bereavement, the loss of a job, an insult, and your image of yourself, which you call your person, changes deeply. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. And to know what you are not, you must watch yourself carefully, rejecting all that does not necessarily go with the basic fact: “I am.” Our usual attitude is of “I am this.” Consistently and perseveringly separate the “I am” from “this” or “that” and try to feel what it means to be, without being “this” or “that.” All our habits go against it and the task of fighting them is long and hard sometimes, but clear understanding helps significantly. The more clearly you understand that on the level of the mind you can be described in negative terms only, the more quickly you will come to the end of your search and realize your limitless being.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

All depends on you. It is by your consent that the world exists. Withdraw your belief in its reality and it will dissolve like a dream. Time can bring down mountains; much more you, who are the timeless source of time. For without memory and expectation there can be no time.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

And spirituality or what you call “religion” is mainly to understand this: that you don’t require anything, you are a part of the totality, or reality.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

How does the personality come into being? By memory. By identifying the present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentary, without past and future, and your personality dissolves.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is a vastness beyond the farthest reaches of the mind. That vastness is my home; that vastness is myself. And that vastness is also love.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

All worldly activities are being done for the sake of entertainment of the consciousness of every living being.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, you seem short-lived and vulnerable, and of course you will feel anxious to survive. But when you know yourself to be beyond space and time you will be afraid no longer.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait to improve others until we have seen ourselves as we are - and have changed.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The very desire to live is the messenger of death, as the longing to be happy is the outline of sorrow. The world is an ocean of pain and fear, anxiety and despair. Pleasures are like the fishes, few and swift, coming rarely, quickly gone.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world, you must step out of it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Why do you enjoy finding fault with others? Is there not a better way to feel good? Such

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible. The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Your begging bowl may be of pure gold, but as long as you do not know it, you are a pauper. You must know your inner worth and trust it and express it in the daily sacrifice of desire and fear.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Increase and widen your desires until nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means, be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Consciousness is spotless, formless and prior to intellect.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Leave alone your desires and fears and give your entire attention to the subject, to he who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

What problems can there be which the mind did not create? Life and death do not create problems; pains and pleasures come and go, experienced and forgotten. It is memory and anticipation that create problems of attainment or avoidance, colored by like and dislike. Truth and love are man’s real nature, and mind and heart are the means of its expression.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time - behind your back!

Nisargadatta Maharaj

See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Self-realization definitely comes first. The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Matter is the shape, mind is the name. Together they make the world. Pervading and transcending is Reality, pure being/awareness/bliss, your very essence.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Give up all and you gain all. Then life becomes what it was meant to be: pure radiation from an inexhaustible source. In that light, the world appears dimly like a dream.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

The problem is not yours—it is your mind’s only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Ramana Maharshi

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

Ramana Maharshi

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

Ramana Maharshi

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

Ramana Maharshi

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Ramana Maharshi

If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself

Ramana Maharshi

Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the ‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

Ramana Maharshi

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

Ramana Maharshi

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

Ramana Maharshi

Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God’s desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.

Ramana Maharshi

Although the modes of meditation may appear to be different from one another, in the end all of them become one. There is no need to doubt this. One may adopt that path which suits the maturity of one’s mind.

Ramana Maharshi

There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

Ramana Maharshi

When there is no ‘I’ there is no karma.

Ramana Maharshi

Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself — like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down — one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs.

Ramana Maharshi

Reality must be always real. It is not with forms and names. That which underlies all these is the reality. It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound. It underlies unrealities, itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is. It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions 'existence', 'non-existence' etc.

Ramana Maharshi

When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the Heart, the names and forms disappear.

Ramana Maharshi

The reply comes as a current of awareness in the Heart, fitful at first and only achieved by intense effort, but gradually increasing in power and constancy, becoming more spontaneous, acting as a check on thoughts and actions, undermining the ego, until finally the ego disappears and the certitude of pure Consciousness remains.

Ramana Maharshi

The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.

Ramana Maharshi

Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.

Ramana Maharshi

It is beyond words or thoughts.

Ramana Maharshi

Silence is also conversation.

Ramana Maharshi

The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

A dreamer dreams that everyone else in his dream must awaken before he can awaken.

Ramana Maharshi

One can know oneself only with one’s own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else’s. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?

Ramana Maharshi

Because of the grades in misery and happiness, the released ones, the jivanmuktas and videhamuktas, may be spoken of as belonging to four categories — Brahmavid, Brahmavara, Brahmavariya and Brahmavarishtha. But these distinctions are from the standpoint of the others who look at them; in reality, however, there are no distinctions in release gained through jnana.

Ramana Maharshi

The Self is the only Reality.

Ramana Maharshi

If you understand your own reality, then that of the rishis and Masters will be clear to you. There is only one Master and that is the Self […] The power is only one in all.

Ramana Maharshi

First set yourself right, and only then set out to improve others. Change the hearts of men and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere; and one can only begin with oneself.

Ramana Maharshi

Surrender, and all will be well. Throw all responsibility onto God. Do not bear the burden yourself.

Ramana Maharshi

Whatever thoughts arise as obstacles to one’s sadhana (spiritual discipline), the mind should not be allowed to go in their direction, but should be made to rest in one’s Self which is the Atman; one should remain as witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude ‘Let whatever strange things happen, happen; let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. In other words, one should not identify oneself with appearances; one should never relinquish one’s Self.

Ramana Maharshi

A Higher Power is leading you. Be led by the same. The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it.

Ramana Maharshi

What he taught was the ultimate doctrine of non-duality, or advaita, in which all other doctrines are finally absorbed: that Being is One and is manifested in the universe and in all creatures without ever changing from its eternal, unmanifest Self, much as, in a dream, the mind creates all the people and events a man sees, without losing anything by their creation or gaining anything by their re-absorption, without ceasing to be itself.

Ramana Maharshi

Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true self. His search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true self. The true self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.

Ramana Maharshi

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings; hence it is called the Heart. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize it. There is nothing else to do.

Ramana Maharshi

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Sri Aurobindo

Do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of future

Sri Aurobindo

By our stumbling the world is perfected.

Sri Aurobindo

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

Sri Aurobindo

Few are those from whom the Grace withdraws, but many are those who withdraw from the Grace.

Sri Aurobindo

The utmost mission of Mind is to train our obscure consciousness which has emerged out of the dark prison of Matter, to enlighten its blind instincts, random intuitions, vague perceptions till it shall become capable of this greater light and this higher ascension. Mind is a passage, not a culmination.

Sri Aurobindo

One can have a psychic feeling of love for someone, a universal love for all creatures, but one has to give oneself only to the Divine.

Sri Aurobindo

The first step on this long path is to consecrate all our works as a sacrifice to the Divine in us and in the world.

Sri Aurobindo

Put stress always on the aspiration within; let that get depth and steadiness in the heart; the outer obstacles of mind and the vital will recede of themselves with the growth of the heart's love and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo

The hymn was to the Rishi who composed it a means of spiritual progress for himself and for others.

Sri Aurobindo

Their aim was illumination, not logical conviction, their ideal the inspired seer, not the accurate reasoner.

Sri Aurobindo

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

Sri Aurobindo

A new consciousness is coming based upon inner silence and quietude. You must wait quietly for that to develop. True knowledge, true perceptions of people and things will come in that new silent consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Be a light unto oneself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The demand to be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moment you have in your heart this extra-ordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Peace can come only when there is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mindis free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there isno seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inwardpoverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of being alone? Because you are faced with yourself as you are and you find that you are empty, dull, stupid, ugly, guilty and anxious - a petty, shoddy, secondhand entity. Face the fact; look at it, do not run away from it. The moment you run away fear begins.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being—free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies—and therefore you can find out what religion is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So freedom lies, not in trying to become something different, nor in doing whatever you happen to feel like doing, nor in following the authority of tradition, of your parents, of your guru, but in understanding what you are from moment to moment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Through a narrow window we can see only part of the sky, and not the whole vastness, the magnificence of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You compare yourself with somebody, compare yourself with an example, with the ultimate ideal. Comparative judgment makes the mind dull; it does not sharpen the mind, it does not make the mind comprehensive, inclusive, because, when you are all the time comparing, what has happened? You see the sunset, and you immediately compare that sunset with the previous sunset.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Compassion, as love, is something which is not of the mind. The mind is not conscious of itself as being compassionate, as loving. But the moment you forgive consciously, the mind is strengthening its own center in its own hurt. So the mind which consciously forgives can never forgive; it does not know forgiveness; it forgives in order not to be further hurt.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Peace is of the heart, not of the mind. To know peace you have to find out what beauty is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Self-reliance brings a certain freedom in which you discover; and that freedom is denied to you when you are comparing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You know, it is one of the most marvellous things in life to discover something unexpectedly, spontaneously, to come upon something without premeditation, and instantly to see the beauty, the sacredness, the reality of it. But a mind that is seeking and wanting to find is never in that position at all.

Jiddu Krishnamurti