Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you need clothes, you need a shelter, you need love, you need relationship. Perfectly good, nothing wrong in it. Needs can be fulfilled; desires are basically unfulfillable. Desires create complexity. They create complexity because they can never be fulfilled. You go on and on working hard for them, and they remain unfulfilled, and you remain empty.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

Be satisfied with needs instead of wants.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

A simple life is its own reward.

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens.

Living simply makes loving simple.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don't need by confronting each of your possessions properly.

With renunciation life begins.