Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Fear is an interesting energy that we all have to face. Some people step up and aren't afraid but still come up short. And some would rather cop out: "My shoulder hurts" or "I didn't give it my all." They can sleep at night.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

I think when I feel fear, that's often a cue that I should do something. If I begin to feel fear, that's a strong sign, psychologically, that something has its hooks in me somewhere deep.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.