Without knowing your background, without knowing the substance of your thought and whence it comes—your search is utterly futile, your action has no meaning. —Krishnamurti

When we lose contact with nature, we lose contact with each other. —Krishnamurti

We resist criticism. We cut ourselves off from any relationship that might open the door to our own mind and heart. We become so cunning in our resistance that it gets better with age. —Krishnamurti

The action of being is so revolutionary that society rejects it and concerns itself exclusively with the action of becoming. —Krishnamurti

As long as the mind is comparing, there is no love. —Krishnamurti

If we can establish a relationship with each other in which open dialogue takes place – a free, self-critical, self-aware dialogue of questioning, doubting, inquiring – then we are both learning, are both communing with each other’s point of view. —Krishnamurti

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow. —Krishnamurti

You may wander all over the earth but you have to come back to yourself. —Krishnamurti

The understanding of yourself, however painful or passingly pleasurable, is the beginning of wisdom. —Krishnamurti

Man is frightened of not being or not becoming. He must have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, and the supreme nothingness seems a denial of life. —Krishnamurti

Have you not noticed that understanding is in the instant, that it is not of time? —Krishnamurti

Sanity means health, wholeness and also holiness. In this state, there is no imbalance. This is freedom. —Krishnamurti

The action of being is so revolutionary that society rejects it and concerns itself exclusively with the action of becoming. —Krishnamurti

The remembrance of yesterday only darkens today, and comparison prevents perception. —Krishnamurti

When there is the cessation of becoming, of craving in its many forms, there is the falling away of dualism – the ‘me’ and the ‘not me’. —Krishnamurti

There is no complexity in ‘what is’, but only in the many escapes that we seek. —Krishnamurti

Why do we struggle to be superior? Why all this effort to assert oneself? —Krishnamurti

The things that are worthwhile are not to be found. They cannot be bought, they must happen; and the happening cannot be cunningly planned. —Krishnamurti

Wisdom is one thing, and knowledge another. —Krishnamurti

Searching and watching are two different processes; one is binding, the other brings understanding. —Krishnamurti

To bring about a radical change in the structure of society, mustn’t you and I fundamentally transform ourselves? —Krishnamurti

It is not our problems which set man against man, but our ideas about them. Problems bring us together, but ideas separate us. —Krishnamurti

The future is in the present; the future will not be very different if there is no comprehension of the present. —Krishnamurti

Listen with your heart, with your mind, not with the little part of the intellect. —Krishnamurti

The more confusion there is, the more you want a leader, somebody who will guide you out of this mess. —Krishnamurti

Most of us are superficially empty, and it shows itself through the desire for distraction. We want to be amused, so we turn to books, to the radio, we run to lectures, to authorities; the mind is everlastingly filling itself. —Krishnamurti

The man who is ceaselessly questioning, who has no authority, who does not follow any tradition, any book or teacher, becomes a light unto himself. —Krishnamurti

Yoga also means skill in action, not just doing a few exercises. —Krishnamurti

It is essential to die to the experience of yesterday and to the sensations of today, otherwise there is repetition. And the repetition of an act, a ritual, a word, is vain. —Krishnamurti

To live mechanically is not only encouraged by society, but also by each one of us, because it is the easiest way to live. —Krishnamurti

What is love? It is to meet another with the same intensity, at the same level, at the same time. —Krishnamurti

Yoga, drugs, drink, all the various stimulants, produce their own results, but they cannot possibly make the mind into that astonishing instrument of inquiry, search and discovery. —Krishnamurti

Thought goes about its mischievous ways, frightened, cruel, vain and never stable. —Krishnamurti

When you do something with all your being integrated, it leaves no residue of memory. —Krishnamurti

Absolute care is love. Without this love, there can be no change in society. —Krishnamurti

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What is not understood leaves a mark, which we call memory. —Krishnamurti

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Fear breeds violence. —Krishnamurti

To be nothing implies tremendous inward meditation. That is real meditation. —Krishnamurti

A life based on thought and its activities becomes mechanical; however smoothly it may run, it is still mechanical action. —Krishnamurti

Conflict is the very structure of the self. —Krishnamurti

Your intellect has built walls of self-protection against all discovery and spontaneity, against freedom and understanding. The intellect will never find the answer. —Krishnamurti

Right meditation is absolutely necessary, so that the mind is made young, fresh, innocent. Innocent means not able to be hurt. —Krishnamurti

The more you resist or struggle against something, the less you comprehend it. —Krishnamurti

What lies beyond thought, beyond the known, may not be imagined or made a myth of or made a secret for the few. It is there for you to see. —Krishnamurti

In the secret recesses of the mind, truth has been pushed aside by symbols, words and images. —Krishnamurti

Any crisis is always new; therefore, to understand it, a mind must always be fresh, clear, swift in its pursuit. —Krishnamurti

The books say: conform to the pattern and you will be free in the end; do all these things, obey, and ultimately there will be freedom. To me, that is all sheer nonsense because freedom is at the beginning, not at the end. —Krishnamurti

Why are you caught in this extraordinary net of suffering? —Krishnamurti