Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

True beauty lies in true education.

We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

I try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.

Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Spiritual partnership is the partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.

"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.