Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurtiwas a speaker and writer on matters that concerned humankind. In his early life he was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the organization behind it. His subject matter included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. He constantly stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasised that such revolution cannot be brought...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 May 1895
CountryIndia
Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes about
If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.
The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.
You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.
To come upon love without seeking it is the only way to find it.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.