It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIIt is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIPut away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo 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.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIYou want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTINo book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIOne is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIEnlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWhen you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIFear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIWe all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIThe moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTIMeditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTITo know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
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