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J. Krishnamurti QUOTES

1 " It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The First and Last Freedom

2 " You can only be afraid of what you think you know. "

― J. Krishnamurti

3 " We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words. "

― J. Krishnamurti

4 " Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Freedom from the Known

5 " 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. "

― J. Krishnamurti

6 " The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. "

― J. Krishnamurti

7 " 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 organizations seek to control education. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Education and the Significance of Life

8 " 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. "

― J. Krishnamurti

9 " Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation. "

― J. Krishnamurti

10 " 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 in the problem. "

― J. Krishnamurti , The Flight of the Eagle

J. Krishnamurti QUOTES

11 " Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. "

― J. Krishnamurti

12 " 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 desires. If we are constantly judging the child according to our personal likes and dislikes, we are bound to create barriers and hindrances in our relationship with him and in his relationships with the world. Unfortunately, most of us desire to shape the child in a way that is gratifying to our own vanities and idiosyncrasies; we find varying degrees of comfort and satisfaction in exclusive ownership and domination. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Education and the Significance of Life

13 " Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Education and the Significance of Life

14 " There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness. Is this not what is actually taking place all over the world? Our present education is geared to industrialization and war, its principal aim being to develop efficiency; and we are caught in this machine of ruthless competition and mutual destruction. If education leads to war, if it teaches us to destroy or be destroyed, has it not utterly failed? "

― J. Krishnamurti , Education and the Significance of Life

15 " To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Education and the Significance of Life

16 " The right kind of education consists in understanding the child as he is without imposing upon him an ideal of what we think he should be. To enclose him in the framework of an ideal is to encourage him to conform, which breeds fear and produces in him a constant conflict between what he is and what he should be; and all inward conflicts have their outward manifestations in society. "

― J. Krishnamurti

17 " But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more! "

― J. Krishnamurti

18 " Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowing. It is better not to listen to a truth than to listen without acting, for then it becomes a poison. "

― J. Krishnamurti

19 " It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent. "

― J. Krishnamurti , Freedom from the Known

20 " In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind, not a mind that agrees and disagrees, taking sides in an argument, disputing over mere words, but rather following with an intention to understand - a very difficult thing to do because most of us don't know how to look at, or listen to, our own being any more than we know how to look at the beauty of a river or listen to the breeze among the trees "

― J. Krishnamurti , Freedom from the Known