Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

You learn to accept your own reality.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

How hard it is to accept the truth. How hard it is

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

Can you love people into truth? Absolutely.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Sex makes you get real.