All the grass of the world is in one blade. —Krishnamurti

Can I die to the known, die to every moment? Can I invite death, enter the house of death while living? —Krishnamurti

To see danger is intelligence. And to see the danger of fear so completely is also intelligence. Therefore, it is intelligence that acts and sets you free from fear. —Krishnamurti

To suppose that certain yoga exercises will lead you to salvation, to understanding, to God, truth or wisdom, is sheer nonsense. —Krishnamurti

When you follow somebody, you have destroyed your own thought; you have lost your independence and your freedom – politically, but much more psychologically; outwardly, but much more inwardly. —Krishnamurti

Truth is always new, totally unknown and unknowable. —Krishnamurti

Contradiction exists because there is duality between the thinker and the thought. As long as this duality exists, there must be conflict. —Krishnamurti

We are frightened of losing everything we have gained, understood and gathered. We are frightened of not being. We are frightened of the unknown. —Krishnamurti

We are the things we possess; we are that to which we are attached. —Krishnamurti

The very awareness of my dullness is the freedom from that dullness. —Krishnamurti

How anxious we are to find an answer to our problems! We are so eager to find an answer that we cannot study the problem; it prevents our silent observation of the problem. —Krishnamurti

Awareness must be choiceless. To be so aware demands wide patience and sensitivity. —Krishnamurti

Hesitancy is essential to discovery and further understanding, but how can there be hesitancy when you know so much and the self-protective armour is so highly polished? —Krishnamurti

You choose one kind of escape, I another, and my particular brand is always assumed to be more worthwhile than yours; but all escape is harmful, leading to illusion and mischief. —Krishnamurti

Life in a city is strangely cut off from the universe; man-made buildings have taken the place of valleys and mountains, and the roar of traffic has been substituted for that of boisterous streams. —Krishnamurti

‘More’ is the constant cry of the self; it is the craving for sensation, whether of the past or the future. —Krishnamurti

We do not really want to let go of our problems, for what would we be without them? —Krishnamurti

To understand that which you are, whether pleasant or unpleasant, the myth, the ideal, the self-projected future state, must entirely cease. —Krishnamurti

Once you are aware of ‘what is’, however reluctantly, and deny it because of your commitments, deep contradiction is set going. —Krishnamurti

Can you understand anything through conflict? To conquer is not to understand. What you conquer has to be conquered again and again, but there is freedom from that which is fully understood. —Krishnamurti

In knowing oneself, there is enlightenment. Not the enlightenment that lies beyond the hills, which you seek, but the enlightenment that comes in the understanding of oneself. —Krishnamurti

To go to the very end of a thought, an idea, a feeling or a subject is to be serious. —Krishnamurti

Understanding is not something mysterious. It requires a mind that is capable of looking at things directly, without prejudices, without personal inclination, without opinion. —Krishnamurti

We are always thinking of being free from something. Being free from something is not freedom. —Krishnamurti

Order is the perception of things as they are, and as you are, not my conclusion of what you are. —Krishnamurti

When there is immediate contact with fear, there is a totally different action. —Krishnamurti

When there is no hate, when there is no fear, when there is no ambition, when there is no self-concern, then there is love. Be free from hate, from ambition, from greed. —Krishnamurti

I am greedy. At the moment of greed there is neither ‘I’ nor anything else, there is just that reaction. A second later, thought comes in and says, ‘I was greedy.’ Is that ‘I’ separate from greed? No. —Krishnamurti

Love is hard to find, and the one who is sentimentally emotional is generally cruel. —Krishnamurti

I am the rest of mankind. I won’t kill anybody, because I see the absurdity of ideological wars, the absurdity of dividing the earth into countries. It is all done in the name of individual, national, communal or group security. —Krishnamurti

There is no right answer to a wrong question, but if you put the right question, there is the right answer. —Krishnamurti

Accepting conflict is the same thing as running away from it. —Krishnamurti

It is too immature and silly for me to be afraid about anything. I have done wrong – all right. I have made mistakes – all right. I shall probably make dozens of mistakes, but I am living without the borders of time. —Krishnamurti

Within the field of the mind, love cannot be. Mind is the area of fear and calculation, envy and domination, comparison and denial, and so love is not. —Krishnamurti

Can the mind, without any form of compulsion, without a motive, bring about a transformation within itself? —Krishnamurti

Seeing is ending, seeing is action. If I understand something, the understanding itself is action. —Krishnamurti

We have been so trained, educated to suppress and conform, that we are really frightened of being free. —Krishnamurti

The mind that conforms to a pattern, however noble, can never be free and can never perceive what is true. —Krishnamurti

To find something original and true, something timeless, you cannot come to it with the burden of knowledge. —Krishnamurti

What is missing in our lives is that complete action which has neither the past nor the shadow of the future. It is an action that is complete, immediate and urgent. —Krishnamurti

Self-awareness is arduous, and since most of us prefer an easy, illusory way, we bring into being an authority. —Krishnamurti

There is freedom only when there is an understanding of the function of knowledge, and therefore freedom from the known. —Krishnamurti

Most of your life is merely a routine that you are ever in search of relief from. —Krishnamurti

Walk in solitude, though you live in society. —Krishnamurti

Our trouble is that we really do not know how to love one another. —Krishnamurti

If we did not worry, we would feel that we were not alive; to be struggling with a problem is, for the majority of us, an indication of existence. —Krishnamurti

We struggle with an end in view; we strive after achievement. We make a constant effort to become something, positively or negatively. The struggle is always to be secure in some way. —Krishnamurti

Simplicity is the alert, passive awareness in which the experiencer is not recording the experience. —Krishnamurti

As society is always in a state of corruption, destroying itself from within, a mind that continues to be influenced by society must also be in a state of corruption or deterioration. —Krishnamurti

There is, consciously or unconsciously, a struggle between thought and the organism. In this way, thought destroys the natural intelligence of the body. —Krishnamurti