Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I invented myself.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand Filtered and influenced by it, until no part Remains that is surely you.

The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow.

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.