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the man who has accumulated money or knowledge can never know love, because he lives with the things of the mind;

Jiddu Krishnamurti • On Love and Loneliness

We want peace only as an idea, but not as an actuality. We want peace on the verbal level, which is only on the thinking level, though we proudly call it the intellectual level. But the word peace is not peace. Peace can only be when the confusion which you and another make ceases. We are attached to the world of ideas and not to peace.

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

The organization becomes a framework into which its members can conveniently fit. They no longer strive after Truth or the mountaintop, but rather carve for themselves a convenient niche in which they put themselves, or let the organization place them, and consider that the organization will thereby lead them to Truth.

J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography

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

The conflict-ridden violent world cannot be transformed into a life of goodness, love, and compassion by any political, social, or economic strategies. It can be transformed only through mutation in individuals brought about through their own observation without any guru or organized religion.

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

So for most of us, life is a process of isolation, of denial, resistance, conformity to a pattern; and naturally in that process there is no life, and therefore there is a sense of emptiness, a sense of frustration.

Jiddu Krishnamurti • On Love and Loneliness

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

— J. Krishnamurti

When we look to a system for the transformation of society, we are merely evading the question, because a system cannot transform man; man always transforms the system, which history shows. Until I, in my relationship to you, understand myself, I am the cause of chaos, misery, destruction, fear, brutality. Understanding myself is not a matter of ti... See more