You must understand

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

When we talk

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all want

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

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition

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

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no end to education

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

The moment you have

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary 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

The flowering

The flowering of love is meditation.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Your belief

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

The end is the beginning

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

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

The constant assertion

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

So when

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is no measure

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

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

In oneself

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 the key or the door to open, except yourself.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we can really understand

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

I maintain

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Hitler and Mussolini

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

All ideologies

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

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man who is

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti