Jiddu Krishnamurti Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes, Jiddu Krishnamurti sayings, and Jiddu Krishnamurti proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

All tradition is merely the past. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious, of which you are not aware. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy…You want to be consciously happy; the moment you are consciously happy, happiness is gone. Jiddu Krishnamurti
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. Jiddu Krishnamurti
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it. 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
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. 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
Most of our life is a battle, a strain, the anxiety, the guilt, the despair, the immense sense of loneliness and sorrow, that is our life. That is actually what is and we are unwilling to face it. 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
On sees the mind is always demanding to be certain, to be secure, to be safe. A mind that is safe, secure, is a bourgeois mind, a shoddy mind. Yet that is what all of us want; to be completely safe. Jiddu Krishnamurti
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world... Unless in the very essence of our being there is a revolution, a mutation. I do not see how a good society can come about. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Awareness isn't something mysterious that you must practice; it isn't something that can be learned only from the speaker, or from some bearded gentlemen or other. Jiddu Krishnamurti
To be conscious of our reactions, of our hidden motives and conditioned responses, this also is part of awareness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
So, through awareness I begin to see myself as I actually am, the totality of myself. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Being watchful from moment to moment of all its thoughts, its feelings, its reactions, unconscious as well as conscious, the mind is constantly discovering the significance of its own activities, which is self-knowledge. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Awareness is of the total process of the mind, not just of one particular segment of that process. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Being fully conscious of one's whole process of thinking, and being able to go beyond tnat process, is awareness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
To say that the mind can or cannot be free from its conditioning is still part of its conditioning, but to observe that conditioning without saying either is a furthering of awareness—awareness of the whole process of thinking. Jiddu Krishnamurti
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom from the desire for an answer in essential to the understanding of a problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The whole of life, from the moment you are born, to the moment you die, is a process of learning. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. Jiddu Krishnamurti
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only in a relationship do you see the face of what is. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. The competitive spirit is merely an additive process which is not learning at all. This is true not only of competition with others but competition with yourself as well. Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then you are undergoing a transformation. 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