These are the quotes used for the Quote of the day on the home page. One is shown each day, in order, and the list starts again at the end. Quotes from the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust’s “15 Quotes On…” series (kfoundation.org) are credited to the book they come from.
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Truth is a pathless land.
Dissolution of the Order of the Star, Ommen, Holland, 3 August 1929
What you are, society is.
Small Group Discussion 3, Ojai, 26 March 1970
Have a complete break with the past and see what happens.
Public talk, Madras, 1952
Sirs, do it, and you will see delight.
Public talk, Madras, 1952
It is essential sometimes to go to retreat.
Public talk, Madras, 5 January 1952 (Collected Works, Vol. VI)
Don’t you want to be quiet, don’t you want to know more of yourself?
Public talk, Madras, 1952
You have only to watch, see, listen; it is all there open and clear.
Krishnamurti’s Notebook, 3 December 1961
Can I, can you live a life without a single shadow of conflict?
Question & Answer Meeting 2, Saanen, 24 July 1980
One sees or understands only when the mind is quiet.
Public talks, Amsterdam, 1967
If I went to the centre, first of all I would want to be quiet.
On the Krishnamurti study centres
You are the world.
You Are the World (1972)
Happiness is always in the present, a timeless state.
The First and Last Freedom
To the free alone is there love.
Commentaries on Living, Second Series
Question everything.
Beyond Violence
Meditation is the silence of thought.
The Only Revolution
If you hurt nature, you are hurting yourself.
The Whole Movement of Life Is Learning
Walk in solitude, though you live in society.
Meeting Life
To love is to be aware of eternity.
Happy Is the One Who Is Nothing
Attention is the complete good.
Commentaries on Living, Third Series
Truth has no tradition; it cannot be handed down.
The Beauty of Life: Krishnamurti’s Journal
When you see how thought breeds fear, what takes place?
You Are the World
Love has no time.
Krishnamurti to Himself
Without humility, how can there be understanding?
Commentaries on Living, First Series
Either everything is sacred, or nothing is sacred.
The Only Revolution
What you are, the world is.
The First and Last Freedom
In love there is no ambition.
Life Ahead
A mind full of images cannot perceive.
Tradition and Revolution
Comparison is taught from childhood.
Freedom from the Known
Let the mind be empty.
Commentaries on Living, Third Series
There is security only in intelligence.
Can Conflict End?
Meditation is the understanding of the heart.
Can the Mind Be Quiet?
When there is clarity, there is an end to authority.
Commentaries on Living, Third Series
Truth is not yours or mine.
The Only Revolution
Concentration is exclusion. Attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing.
Freedom from the Known
Perception is action.
The Flight of the Eagle
Knowledge is the movement of time.
The Network of Thought
Fear breeds violence.
Inward Revolution
In cooperation there is no suppression or subservience.
Can the Mind Be Quiet?
Thought is never innocent.
The Only Revolution
All beliefs are divisive, whether political or religious.
The Flight of the Eagle
Our beliefs separate us, therefore our beliefs have nothing to do with religion.
Life Ahead
Institutions can never change humanity psychologically, deeply.
Krishnamurti to Himself
Fear is always in relation to something; it does not exist by itself.
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Dissolution of the Order of the Star, Ommen, Holland, 3 August 1929
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Right education is surely finding a different way of life, setting the mind free from its own conditioning.
Each individual is nothing but a series of conditioned memories, which impede complete and intelligent adjustment to the living, moving present.
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
You and I are one; there is neither the East nor the West.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
Why do you want to read others’ books when there is the book of yourself?
Truth is more in the process than in the result.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
The observer is the observed.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Do not think about yourself, but be aware of the thought, emotion, or action that makes you think of yourself.
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
The mind has to be empty to see clearly.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Impatience is time.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
Dissolution of the Order of the Star, Ommen, Holland, 3 August 1929
My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
Dissolution of the Order of the Star, Ommen, Holland, 3 August 1929
How can there be true relationship between two individualized patterns, though there may be mechanical response from each?
Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?
More daily quotes are published by the Krishnamurti Foundation at jkrishnamurti.org.