Jiddu Krishnamurti

"You cannot go beyond yourself because you are yourself."

"The world does not change because you change your thoughts; it changes because you live differently."

"Envy and comparison are the same poison with different names."

"The mind that seeks security is the mind that creates insecurity."

"We are not responsible for the world, but we are responsible for ourselves."

"True intelligence is the cessation of mechanical thinking."

"You cannot understand love through books or teachers—only through living."

"The authority you grant to others is the authority you deny yourself."

"We die a thousand deaths because we are never fully alive."

"The universe does not care about your plans; it unfolds according to its own intelligence."

"You are the problem, and therefore you are also the solution."

"The observer and the observed are not separate when you truly see."

"We seek happiness because we have invented unhappiness."

"The mind that questions everything will find nothing to hold onto."

"Your greatest enemy is the person you think you should be."

"Time is invented by the mind that is afraid of now."

"The greatest teacher is the one who has nothing to teach."

"You become what you resist most strongly."

"The moment you are satisfied with your understanding, you have stopped growing."

"We are prisoners in a jail of our own making, and the door is never locked."

"Love without fear is the only true love that exists."

"The mind that compares can never be at peace."

"Your greatest discovery is that you are not what you thought you were."

"We suffer because we cling to what was and fear what will be."

"The path to understanding is the path away from all paths."

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."

"Do you know what it means to die? Not physically, but to die to everything you have known, to every experience you have accumulated?"

"Freedom is not the reaction against something. Freedom is not to be free from something, but freedom in its absolute sense."