In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there, and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind, not a mind that agrees and disagrees, taking sides in an argument, disputing over mere words, but rather following with an intention to understand - a very difficult thing to do because most of us don't know how to look at, or listen to, our own being any more than we know how to look at the beauty of a river or listen to the breeze among the trees

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbors, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti