Quotes from 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
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
All tradition is merely the past.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti