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.”

“If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.”

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

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

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

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

“Life is a total process, the inner as well as the outer; the outer definitely affects the inner, but the inner invariably overcomes the outer. What you are, you bring about outwardly. The ou...”

“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.”

“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 org...”

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

“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.”

“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 t...”

“Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.”

“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 th...”

“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...”

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

“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.”

“So, can my mind be free from the given culture in which I have been brought up? This is really quite an important question. Because if the mind is not free from the culture in which it has b...”

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”

“To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould him to fit the pattern of our d...”