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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

Yoga exercises are excellent to keep the body healthy, but through them you can never come upon an area where there is no movement of thought – never! —Krishnamurti

As there is an art in love, there is also an art in questioning and doubting; doubting one’s conclusions and opinions, questioning why we tolerate this vast burden of sorrow. —Krishnamurti

Be nothing. Life then becomes extraordinarily simple and beautiful. —Krishnamurti

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. —Krishnamurti

One who seeks truth will never find it. —Krishnamurti

Question everything. —Krishnamurti

A mind that is hoping, inviting, expecting, can never under any circumstances reach that which is beyond the mind. No path, no yoga, no discipline will lead you to it. —Krishnamurti

The confusion in the world indicates the collapse of all moral and spiritual values, and the glorification of sensual values. —Krishnamurti

A mind that is very quiet, a mind that is not distracted by its own thought, a mind that is open, can look at a problem very directly and very simply. —Krishnamurti

Truth is not yours or mine. Like beauty and love, it cannot be possessed. —Krishnamurti

You cannot have an idea about the present, for the present is action, the only action there is. —Krishnamurti

It is truth that liberates, not your striving to be free. —Krishnamurti

When you try to cover the living with explanations, there is death to the living, and that is what most of us desire – we want to be put to sleep by words, by ideas, by thought. —Krishnamurti

Thought creates the ideal as well as the problem. The ideal is a self-projection, and your working towards that self-projection is what you call action. —Krishnamurti

Truth cannot be given to you by somebody. You have to discover it, and to discover, there must be a state of mind in which there is direct perception. —Krishnamurti

Only when you are capable of looking at ‘what is’ is there clarity. —Krishnamurti

Integration is not on one or two levels of our existence; it is the coming together of the whole. —Krishnamurti

Thought makes for repetition, and repetition makes relationship stale. —Krishnamurti

My ego, the ‘me’ being more important than you, we and they, my group against your group – this is the factor of separation, created by thought. —Krishnamurti

A mind that is attentive can concentrate without exclusion, but a mind that has acquired concentration through effort, training and discipline, such a mind can never be attentive. —Krishnamurti

A feeling is new, but you absorb it into the old by giving it a name. —Krishnamurti

It is because you want greater sensation that you follow and so create a leader, a guru; and for this new gratification you will sacrifice, put up with discomfort, insults and discouragements. —Krishnamurti

From fear there is substitution, sublimation or discipline, which are all forms of repression. —Krishnamurti