Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotations | Page 3

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.