Yoga exercises were invented to keep the body healthy and thereby to have a very active, clear mind. The practice of certain exercises – asanas and so on – does keep the glands healthy. —Krishnamurti

There is no fundamental transformation through outward change, or through any form of pressure or influence. —Krishnamurti

Comparison breeds self-pity, and then misfortune ensues. —Krishnamurti

Do you ever sit quietly, with your back very straight, without movement, and know the beauty of silence? —Krishnamurti

Meditation is the most simple, natural thing, like the flow of water, continuous, persistent, whose depth is unknown. It is a living thing and cannot be put into the cage of thought with its schools of yoga, mantras and disciplines. —Krishnamurti

The description is not the described; the word is not the thing. —Krishnamurti

Comparison is taught from childhood. In every school, child A is compared with child B, and A destroys himself in order to be like B. —Krishnamurti

We resist a great deal; we don’t want to be disturbed; out of the feeling of hurt, we cling to something we hope will protect us. —Krishnamurti

You cannot, may not, invite joy; if you do, it becomes pleasure. —Krishnamurti

Through explanation, you are not freed from suffering; the suffering is still there, only you have covered it over with words and conclusions, either your own or those of another. —Krishnamurti

No swami, no system of yoga, no religious organisation, no doctrine or belief can lead you to the discovery of truth. Only the free mind can discover. —Krishnamurti

You live in your own dark isolation, and the escape from it is further darkness. —Krishnamurti

If you want to understand the beauty of a bird, a fly, a leaf, or a person with all their complexities, you have to give your whole attention, which is awareness. —Krishnamurti

What a strong hold respectability has on us! What will people say? —Krishnamurti

Self-knowledge is the discovery from moment to moment of the ways of the self. —Krishnamurti

If you lose touch with nature, you lose touch with humanity. —Krishnamurti

One must begin with uncertainty, doubting, questioning, having a sceptical mind; then one comes to a place where there is absolute certainty. —Krishnamurti

You will come upon truth when the mind is free of all the things it has put together. —Krishnamurti

As nothing can live in isolation, the attempts of the mind to isolate itself lead to frustration and misery. —Krishnamurti

The inner demands greater diligence than the outer. It is an urgent demand. And this diligence is in the affectionate study of what one is. —Krishnamurti

Knowledge cannot make man love another; it can create war and the instruments of destruction but cannot bring love to the heart, or peace to the mind. —Krishnamurti

You may worship and forget yourself in the rigmarole of rituals, but do what you will, the ache of loneliness continues. —Krishnamurti

When the self is not, which means when the activity of thought is not, there is vast silence in the brain. —Krishnamurti

To properly live, one must end sorrow and fear. —Krishnamurti

Love is a feeling in which there is gentleness, quietness, tenderness, consideration, in which there is beauty. There is no ambition or jealousy. —Krishnamurti

What a strange thing is loneliness, and how frightening it is! We never allow ourselves to get too close to it, and if by chance we do, we quickly run away. —Krishnamurti

When I do not know, I am learning. —Krishnamurti

True revolution can take place only when you, the individual, become aware in your relationship to another. —Krishnamurti

As a tooth that causes intense pain must be attended to immediately, sorrow, if intense, demands urgent alleviation. But instead, we seek an escape or explain it away; we avoid the real issue, which is the self. —Krishnamurti

To live peacefully in this world, there must be affection, there must be consideration. Love is not an ideology. You cannot turn love into an ideology, and through an ideology you can’t come to love. —Krishnamurti

Whatever choice you may make in the state of confusion can only lead to further confusion. —Krishnamurti

The very change is urgency; it is not that change will come about through urgency. —Krishnamurti

You must have the quality of a brain that is inquiring, looking, searching, asking, questioning, doubting. Not only doubting others, your books and so on, but doubting your own thinking, questioning your own responses and reactions. —Krishnamurti

If you cannot stand alone, you are not free. —Krishnamurti

You can play with it, go to the Himalayas to learn how to breathe and sit properly, do a little bit of yoga and think you have learnt meditation, but that is all rather childish. —Krishnamurti

Love is not memory, a remembrance of pleasures. —Krishnamurti

If everything is in flux, in movement, flowing ceaselessly, how can my mind, which is being nurtured on time, on recognition, how can that mind appreciate or know something beyond time, which has no limit, no borders, no recognition? —Krishnamurti

We have created a society that demands all our time, all our energies, all our life. There is no leisure to learn, and so life becomes mechanical, almost meaningless. —Krishnamurti

What thought thinks about is made into a reality, but it is not truth. —Krishnamurti

Do you really want to change, basically? Most of us don’t, so we just carry on. —Krishnamurti

There is this search for freedom. That search is there at the beginning for all of us when we are young, for then we are revolutionary, we are discontented, we want to know, we are curious, we are struggling. But soon that discontent is diverted and slowly dies. —Krishnamurti

I say one thing and do another – that is a fragmentation. —Krishnamurti

You and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. —Krishnamurti

Aren’t you, in your very struggle to be different, the same as others? Why all this struggle? —Krishnamurti

The movement of behaviour is the sure guide to yourself; it is the mirror of your consciousness. —Krishnamurti

There is no system, and so there is no direction to truth or to the beauty of meditation. —Krishnamurti

As a human being who psychologically represents the whole of mankind, if I am totally, completely good, in all my relationships, in all my activities, that goodness will operate. —Krishnamurti

If, for me, the all-important thing is to understand you, this very sense of urgency overrides all my prejudices and opinions about you. —Krishnamurti

Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. —Krishnamurti

Even in so-called spiritual movements, social divisions are maintained. How eagerly a titled person is welcomed and given the front seat! How the followers hang around the famous! —Krishnamurti