Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes and Sayings

• Love is not habit, love cannot be cultivated habits can be cultivated and for most of us love is something so far away that we have never known the quality of it, we do not even know the nature of it. To come upon love there must be freedom; The mind is completely still, within its own freedom, then there is the 'impossible' which is love.
   
• Love is not possible so long as there is the thinker, the centre of the 'me'.
   
• Without love we are destroying each other, we are living in fragments, one fragment in aggression with the other, one in revolt against the other.
   
• The mind has been conditioned through centuries upon centuries in its demand for security and safety; it has built both physiologically and psychologically this self-centred activity and this activity pervades the daily life, as my family, my job, my possessions, and that produces this emptiness, this isolation.
   
• The problem is, how to see clearly so that there is this flowering of love. You know, without love and beauty there is no truth, there is no god, there is only a morality which becomes immoral.
   
• We talk about love, and we are full of ambition, competitiveness, ruthless efficiency. So there is contradiction. The action which springs from that contradiction only brings about frustration and further contradiction...
   
• In our search for kno wledge, in our acquisitive desires, we are losing love, we are blunting the feeling for beauty, the sensitivity to cruelty; we are becoming more and more specialized and less and less integrated.
   
• If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems—if you really loved it—you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not. To want to be famous is tawdry, trivial, stupid, it has no meaning; but , because we don’t love what we are doing, we want to enrich ourselves with fame.
   
• Our present education is rotten because it teaches us to love success and not what we are doing. The result has become more important than the action.
   
• Love implies great freedom—not to do what you like. But love comes only when the mind is very quiet, disinterested, not self-centered.