Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

My family is probably too involved in my life because they are my best friends, but I love that.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.

A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship will become different - totally different. Love will be the basic note of your relationship, not violence. As it is, violence is the basic note. Even if you look at someone, you look in a violent way. But we are accustomed to it.

The flowering of love is meditation.

I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done; swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he wound up with.

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

Once your mind becomes absolutely still, your intelligence transcends human limitations.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

In yoga, you never chase an experience - you only prepare for it.

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

Many make the household but only one the home.

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.