Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

What you seek, you already are.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

You know more than you think you do.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.