Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

Replace judgment with curiosity.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

Become a witness to your thoughts.

Be the witness of your thoughts.

Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...

Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.