Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian's Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero became the small, fat, timid boy. (...) But then he jumped into the crystal-clear water... He drank till his thrist was quenched. And joy filled him from head to foot, the joy of living and the joy of being himself. He was new born. And the best part of it was that he was now the very person he wanted to be. If he had been free to choose, he would have chosen to be no one else.

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same

The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the child to develop--in his own good time--to the fullest, into what he wishes to be and can be, in line with his natural endowment and as the consequence of his unique life in history.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

One thing that I've learned from male role models is that they don't hesitate to invest in themselves, with the view that, if I'm healthy and happy, I'm going to be a better support to my spouse and children. And I've found that to be the case: Once my kids were settled, the next thing I did was take care of my own health and sanity. And made sure that I was exercising and felt good about myself. I'd bring that energy to everything else that I did, the career, relationship, on and on and on.

Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

When you know who you are you are free.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.