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98 Amazing Quotes By Jiddu Krishnamurti That Will Change Your Thinking

Famous As: Public Speaker & Philosopher

Died On: February 17, 1986

Born In: Madanapalle

Founder / Co Founder: Krishnamurti Foundation

Died At Age: 90

Jiddu Krishnamurti was a motivational speaker whose teachings have helped millions. The promulgator of the concept of embracing the good and bad around us and thus rising to a higher level of consciousness, Krishnamurti was a revered speaker with the Theosophical Society. However, he ended his long time association with the community over a disagreement. He was the President of Theosophical Society but an incident which filled him with spiritual awakening caused him to renounce the post. The World Teacher insisted that religion will take humans nowhere near the truth. Here's a firsthand account of the incident which changed Krishnamurti's life radically.

The evangelist says, "Ever since I left Australia I have been thinking and deliberating about the message which the Master K.H. gave me while I was there. I naturally wanted to achieve those orders as soon as I could, and I was to a certain extent uncertain as to the best method of attaining the ideals which were put before me. I do not think a day passed without spending some thought over it, but I am ashamed to say all this was done most casually and rather carelessly. But at the back of my mind the message of the Master ever dwelt.

Well, since August 3rd, I meditated regularly for about thirty minutes every morning. I could, to my astonishment, concentrate with considerable ease, and within a few days I began to see clearly where I had failed and where I was failing. Immediately I set about, consciously, to annihilate the wrong accumulations of the past years. With the same deliberation I set about to find out ways and means to achieve my aim.

During that period of less than three weeks, I connected to keep in mind the image of the Lord Maitreya throughout the entire day, and I found no difficulty in doing this. I found that I was getting calmer and more serene. My whole outlook on life was changed.

Then, on the 17th August, I felt acute pain at the nape of my neck and I had to cut down my meditation to fifteen minutes. The pain instead of getting better as I had hoped grew worse. The climax was reached on the 19th. I could not think, nor was I able to do anything, and I was forced by friends here to retire to bed. Then I became almost unconscious, though I was well aware of what was happening around me. I came to myself at about noon each day. On the first day while I was in that state and more conscious of the things around me, I had the first most extraordinary experience. There was a man mending the road; that man was myself; the pickaxe he held was myself; they very stone which he was breaking up was a part of me; the tender blade of grass was my very being, and the tree beside the man was myself. I almost could feel and think like the roadmender, and I could feel the wind passing through the tree, and the little ant on the blade of grass I could feel. The birds, the dust, and the very noise were a part of me. Just then there was a car passing by at some distance; I was the driver, the engine, and the tyres; as the car went further away from me, I was going away from myself. I was in everything, or rather everything was in me, inanimate and animate, the mountain, the worm, and all breathing things. All day long I remained in this happy condition. I could not eat anything, and again at about six I began to lose my physical body, and naturally the physical elemental did what it liked; I was semi-conscious.

I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. I have stood on the mountain top and gazed at the mighty Beings. Never can I be in utter darkness; I have seen the glorious and healing Light. The fountain of Truth has been revealed to me and the darkness has been dispersed. Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated."

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The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
You Death Alone Will
Jiddu Krishnamurti

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Never
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Learning
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
You Yourself
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Tradition
Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
You Think
Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.
You Me Yourself Will
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
You Happiness
Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
You Change Trying
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do it or don't do it but get on with it...

Do it or don't do it but get on with it...
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Fear Belief
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Will
Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
You I
Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
You Never
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
Love Alone Will
Jiddu Krishnamurti

[on the secret to a happy, content life]

Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.
You I
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Be a light unto oneself
Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
You Life Learning
Jiddu Krishnamurti

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.
Belief
Jiddu Krishnamurti

To 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.

To 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 Krishnamurti