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Most parents, unfortunately, think they are responsible for their children and their sense of responsibility takes the form of telling them what they should do and what they should not do, what they should become and what they should not become. The parents want their children to have a secure position in society. What they call responsibility is p

J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

If thought frees itself from the past, it ceases to be thought

— J. Krishnamurti

Authority of any kind is blinding, it breeds thoughtlessness; and as most of us find that to be thoughtful is to have pain, we give ourselves over to authority.

Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti

Knowledge and wisdom do not go together. Wisdom comes when there is the maturity of self-knowing. Without knowing oneself, order is not possible, and therefore there is no virtue.

Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti

To understand the confusion, belief is not necessary, and belief only acts as a screen between ourselves and our problems.

Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti

Many adults are immature and rather childish, and this is a contributing cause of the confusion and misery in the world. It is the older people who are responsible for the prevailing economic and moral crisis; and one of our unfortunate weaknesses is that we want someone else to act for us and change the course of our lives.

J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?

have done may not have been totally correct, to live with the fact and not interpret the fact according to your pleasure or form of reaction, that is not frightening. Life isn’t very simple. One can live simply but life itself is vast, complex. It extends from horizon to horizon. You can live with few clothes or with one meal a day, but that is not

J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

What we call knowledge is comparatively easy, because that is a movement from the known to the known. But to learn is a movement from the known to the unknown—you learn only like that, do you not?

Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti

Not the intelligence that is obtained from a book, or out of experience; that is not intelligence at all. Intelligence has nothing whatsoever to do with thought. Intelligence operates when the mind sees the whole, the endless whole—not my country, my problems, my little gods, my meditations. It sees the whole implication of living. And this quality... See more