Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
- To understand our human problems there must be love. Mere
legislation cannot bring about the tender intelligence which brings
understanding in relationship.
- Right education should help the student, not only to develop his
capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
- I never said it's wrong to earn a livelihood; one has to earn a
livelihood. I earn my livelihood by talking to people in many
places. I have been doing it for fifty years and I am doing what I
love to do. What I am doing is really what I think is right, is
true; it is the way of living for me - not imposed on me by somebody
- and that is my way of earning a livelihood.
- There is an art of seeing things as they are, without naming,
without being caught in the network of words, the whole operation of
thinking interfering with perception.
- Can I look at the fact of my loneliness, not running away from
it, not trying to find an answer for it, or trying to have a motive
to say, 'Look, what am I to do with it?' Can you just look at a fact
and keep looking at it?
- Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything—the
crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people
sitting in front, the colors they are wearing— being extensively
aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the
leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what
he is doing.
- One must first see the extraordinarily subtle activities of the
'me', of the mind, one must become aware of the ideas, beliefs,
speculations and put them all aside, for they are deceptions, are
they not? Others may have experienced reality; but if you have not
experienced it, what is the good of speculating about it or
imagining that you are in essence something real, immortal, godly?
- To understand yourself is to understand the giver of values.
Without understanding yourself, there is no renunciation of the
world; without self-knowledge there can be only escape, called
renunciation, which gives birth to endless problems and miseries.
- Most of us desire some kind of power; it may be over the son, or
the wife or the husband; or, it may be over a group of people; or it
may be in the name of an ideal or in the name of a country. This
power, this desire to have power over others, is always operating -
even over a servant, to order him about, to get angry with him, to
push him around. Does not this desire for power spring from a sense
of loneliness?
- Do not force yourself to concentrate, but be interested, love
the thing that you are doing, for itself. When you paint, paint for itself; when you look at a dance, enjoy it, look at it, see the beauty of it, so that your mind is not broken up into different parts. so that the mind is a whole thing, a complete thing, so that there is no fractional looking with a mind that is broken up in different parts and which says `I must look.'
- A mind that is caught in tradition, that is merely the instrument of memory, living in the pattern of many yesterdays, is surely incapable of finding out what is true. And without the perfume of that reality, life becomes merely mechanical.
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