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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

Art has its own place, obviously, but only when you deny art, the beauty that man has put together, can you go beyond that. Then you will know for yourself the beauty that cannot be put into words. And when there is that beauty, there is no need to seek anymore. —Krishnamurti

Your prejudice translates the knowledge you gather from books; no book can point out to you that you are prejudiced, nor can it teach you how to love. —Krishnamurti

A fact is not pleasant or unpleasant. —Krishnamurti

Look at your own life and you will see that our living is always on the border of sorrow. —Krishnamurti

If you do not live it, truth becomes a poison. —Krishnamurti

If self-inquiry brings about suffering, it is no longer self-learning. —Krishnamurti

The psychological structure of society is preventing you from listening and seeing. —Krishnamurti

Newspapers, magazines and books, through our addiction to reading, leave their dulling imprint; for reading is a marvellous escape, like drink or ceremony. —Krishnamurti

To possess is to be made dull, whether the possession is virtue or coins. —Krishnamurti