The 30 best phrases of Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is possible that if you think of psychology, Plato, Descartes, Kant, Socrates… But you don't know who Jiddu Krishnamurti is (May 11, 1895 - February 17, 1986), who was also a great thinker for his time. Besides being a thinker about existence and humanity, he was also a Hindu writer and philosopher. He left a great legacy of reflections that even today are still present in the hearts of many people.

He did not recognize in his life any nationality, religion, race or social class since his thought was in the elimination of any type of border or barrier that would hinder human happiness. He received the UN Peace Medal in 1984. He died at the age of 90 but his reflections are translated into different languages ​​and continue to resonate strongly.

Below we want to show you some of his phrases so that in this way you can understand what his mentality was and why he traveled all over the world giving lectures, trying to make those who followed him understand the importance of a radical change in humanity. The need for people to free themselves from internal burdens of fear, the go to or pain. He advocated meditation to find inner peace. Do not miss his reflections, because they will most likely make you think about life and its meaning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes

1. One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
2. Only the individual who is not trapped in society can fundamentally influence it.
3. The decisive thing to bring peace to the world is your daily conduct.
4. Education is not the simple acquisition of knowledge, or collecting and correlating data, but seeing the meaning of life as a whole.
5. The whole cannot be understood from a single point of view, which is what governments, organized religions and authoritarian parties are trying to do.
6. Fear corrupts intelligence and is one of the causes of egotism.
7. Virtue is freedom, it is not a process of isolation. Only in freedom can the truth exist. Therefore it is essential to be virtuous, and not respectable, because virtue produces order. He is only respectable, he is confused, in conflict: only the respectable exercise his will as a means of resistance, and such a person can never find the truth because he is never free.
8. By giving something a name we have limited ourselves to putting it in a category, and we think we have understood it; we do not look at it more closely. But if we don't name it, we are obliged to look at it. In other words, we approach the flower, or whatever it is, with a sense of novelty, with a new quality of examination: we look at it as if we had never looked at it before.
9. When one is attentive to everything, one becomes sensitive, and to be sensitive is to have an internal perception of beauty, it is to have the sense of beauty.
10. Only if we listen can we learn. And listening is an act of silence; only a calm but extraordinarily active mind can learn.
11. The word "reach" again implies time and distance. The mind is thus a slave to the word reach. If the mind can get rid of the words "get," "reach," and "reach," then seeing can be immediate.
12. Love offers itself just as a flower gives its perfume.
13. It is not understood first and then acts. When we understand, that absolute compression is action.
14. This means that you must watch yourself, that you must become more and more aware of the influences that seek to control and dominate you; it means that you must never recklessly accept, but must always question, investigate, and be in a state of rebellion.
15. When we say I don't know, what do we mean?
16. It is not understood first and then acts. When we understand, that absolute compression is action.
17. The religion of all men must be to believe in themselves.
18. Have you ever noticed that inspiration comes when you're not looking for it? It comes when all expectation stops, when the mind and heart calm down.
19. Avoiding a problem only serves to intensify it, and in this process self-understanding and freedom are abandoned.
20. Learning about yourself requires humility, it requires never assuming that you know something, it is about learning about yourself from the beginning and never accumulating.
21. You are the world, you are not separate from the world. He is not American, Russian, Hindu, or Muslim. You are not any of these labels and words, you are the rest of humanity because your consciousness, your reactions are similar to those of others. They may speak a different language, have different customs, that is superficial culture, all cultures are apparently superficial but their conscience, their reactions, their faith, their beliefs, their ideologies, their fears, anxieties, their loneliness, suffering and pleasure they are similar to the rest of humanity. If you change, it will affect all of humanity.
22. It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a deeply ill society.
23. Sowing wheat once, you will reap once. Planting a tree, you reap tenfold. Instructing the worn, you will harvest one hundred times.
24. Freedom is essential to love; not the freedom of revolt, not the freedom to do as we please or to give in openly or secretly to our desires, but rather the freedom that comes with understanding.
25. Only when the mind is free of ideas and beliefs can it act correctly.
26. Life is an extraordinary mystery. Not the mystery in books, not the mystery that people talk about, but a mystery that one has to discover for oneself; and that is why it is so important for you to understand the small, the limited, the trivial, and go beyond all that.
27. Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not looking for it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity.
28. The meaning of life is to live.
29. When there is no love in our heart, we only have one thing left: pleasure; and that pleasure is sex, therefore this becomes a huge problem.
30. The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden. Waiting to be thrown through the rhythm of pain and pleasure.