Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

I'm just one tiny speck on this earth and I am always mindful of the fact that other people have rights and interests.

I can't control other people, what their beliefs are.

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

Your problems with me are not my problems, those are your problems.

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.