We are questioning, challenging, tearing everything down to find out - everything; there is nothing sacred. I won’t accept anything, whether it is said by ‘God’ or the prime minister, or whoever it is. I want to find out, find out for myself inwardly. —Krishnamurti

At the moment of fear, I am paralysed. Verbalisation comes afterwards, and then comes the effort to run away from it or to protect myself. —Krishnamurti

To see truth or falseness does not demand effort. —Krishnamurti

To be moral is to end all respectability; the respectability that society recognises as being moral. Ambition, greed, envy, jealousy, violence, competition, destruction, killing – society considers all that moral and therefore very respectable. —Krishnamurti

Sorrow is thought, either going back or going forward. —Krishnamurti

Relationship means life, and when there is conflict in that relationship, whether within yourself or with your neighbour, your wife or husband, with anybody, then life becomes a battlefield. —Krishnamurti

Self-knowledge is not knowing oneself, but knowing, watching every movement of thought. —Krishnamurti

Here is a problem, and you are reacting to the problem; you are still saying, ‘What am I to do?’ You are giving explanations. Your mind doesn’t look at it and be quiet. —Krishnamurti

Feelings are your thoughts. —Krishnamurti

I am this, and I want to become that, and this becoming is a series of conflicts. When I have become that, there is still another that, and so on endlessly. —Krishnamurti

Thought is always the stale, the past, the old; thought can never be new. —Krishnamurti

Love is not sensation; it is a flame without smoke. —Krishnamurti

We put ourselves to sleep through various ways: God, rituals, ideals, drink, and so on. We want to escape from disturbance. —Krishnamurti

Through avoidance, is there freedom from suffering? You may shut the door on some ugly thing, on some fear, but it is still there behind the door. —Krishnamurti

As with all cities, there was an atmosphere of depression and unnameable sorrow in contrast to the light of the evening, and the artificial gaiety was even more sorrowful. —Krishnamurti

That which is pliable endures; that which is not pliable is broken. —Krishnamurti

The mind must be free to learn, and it is not free to learn when there is accumulated knowledge about fear. —Krishnamurti

There is no path to truth. Truth must be discovered, but there is no formula for its discovery. What is formulated is not true. —Krishnamurti

It is no good rebelling against ‘what is’, the actual. —Krishnamurti

We try to escape through amusement, through television or radio, through books, through so-called religion, and so our lives become very shallow, empty, dull. —Krishnamurti

Are we individuals, in the sense of being unique? Are we? Or are we merely the result of our conditioning, of innumerable influences, of centuries of tradition? —Krishnamurti

If you imitate the silence which I describe, then you are not silent. You have to find out for yourself what silence is. Sit quietly and find out; don’t let somebody else tell you. —Krishnamurti

Why do you choose? You choose because you don’t know, and you are confused. If you are very clear, there is no choice, and so choice is not necessary. —Krishnamurti

Is it possible to create a society in which corruption and misery doesn’t exist? It can be created only when you and I break away from the collective, when we are free of ambition and know what it means to love. —Krishnamurti

Knowledge is undoubtedly useful at one level, but at another it is positively harmful. —Krishnamurti

In the search for happiness we create problems, and in problems we get caught. —Krishnamurti

To depend on experience as a means to the understanding of truth is to pursue the way of self-aggrandisement. —Krishnamurti

Groping blindly, we join this organisation or that. We belong to a particular society, follow a leader, try to find a master in India or somewhere else. —Krishnamurti

Be aware that you are bound, and by what you are bound. —Krishnamurti

The objects of craving may vary, but is not all craving similar? —Krishnamurti

Is it possible to break away from the whole pattern of authority? Can we break away from all authority of any kind in ourselves? —Krishnamurti

To deny knowledge, experience and the known, is to invite the unknown. —Krishnamurti

To understand something, we must approach it without any sense of condemnation. —Krishnamurti

There is no authority in spiritual matters. There is no following, no leader, no guru. One has to find the light for oneself. —Krishnamurti

Only through understanding the ways of desire is there freedom from self-contradiction. —Krishnamurti

Can we bring about a different kind of education in which each person, the teacher as well as the student, loves what they are doing? —Krishnamurti

If there is only thinking and no, ‘I think’, ‘We think’, and so on, but only thinking, there is no fragmentation. Only when the thinker steps in and says, ‘I think,’ is there fragmentation. So the thinker may be the root of fragmentation. —Krishnamurti

Either you love, or do not love; do not make the lack of love into a long-drawn-out process whose end is love. —Krishnamurti

Any effort made to free oneself from one’s conditioning is another form of conditioning. —Krishnamurti

Our motive in searching for the cause is the desire to be rid of the effect. This desire is another form of resistance or condemnation, and when there is condemnation, there is no understanding. —Krishnamurti

A problem is never solved on its own level; being complex, it must be understood in its total process. —Krishnamurti

Illusion is clothed according to tradition, keeping it within the field of respectability. —Krishnamurti

How you regard a problem is of the greatest importance, because your attitude, prejudices, fears and hopes will colour it. —Krishnamurti

Unless we fundamentally change, do what we will – create the most extraordinary legislative order, bring about a welfare state which guarantees everyone’s social well-being – inwardly we shall always remain poor. —Krishnamurti

There may be a state of mind in which time does not exist. Time exists only when there is identification with the known. —Krishnamurti

The mind can free itself from the past, from the burden of accumulated knowledge. Then there is the discovery of something totally new, unexperienced, unimagined, which is a state of creativity. —Krishnamurti

We must break away from the world of imitation and conformity if we are to find a totally different world. This means a fundamental change in our lives. —Krishnamurti

To be free does not demand time. —Krishnamurti

If you hurt nature, you are hurting yourself. —Krishnamurti

Fear exists only in relation to something. Fear does not exist by itself. —Krishnamurti