30 Life Altering and Powerful Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti
A few years back I was doing my typical searching on the internet looking for some kind of profound insight I could apply to my life.
During this time I was on a spiritual seeking adventure. I was exploring books like, A Course In Miracles, The Way To The Kingdom and taking a new approach to reading the popular book I’m sure you heard of entitled, The Bible.
I still remember stumbling upon a Youtube video of a man of Indian descent by the name of Jiddu Krishnamurti.
This man had long since passed but the insights and wisdom he shared shook my spirit to the core. I remember one particular insight this man expressed that caused me to totally redirect the trajectory of my life.
This insight was, you yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything.
Soul Shaking Individuals
There are certain people who resonate with your spirit in such a way it transforms your experience. Jiddu Krishnamurti was one of these people in my life. Though he lived from 1895-1986, his teachings are timeless.
I still recall watching hours of his speeches in my small studio apartment in Seattle right after graduating college and being overwhelmed with the depth of wisdom this man expressed.
While I know there is no one any more worthy than anyone else, this individual has insights I believe the entire world could embrace and apply to their experience.
Below I have shared 30 life changing quotes from this enlightened man. Use these to remind yourself of your light, your power and the beauty of this life you are living.
30 Life Altering and Powerful Quotes From Jiddu Krishnamurti
1 – “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
2 – “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
3 – “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
4 – “It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.”
5 – “Be a light unto oneself.”
6 – “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
7 – “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.”
8 – “The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.”
9 – “The idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
10 – “When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.”
11 – “Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect … Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.”
12 – “What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.”
13 – “But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.”
14 – “When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.”
15 – “All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.”
16 – “Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.”
17 – “In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either they key or the door to open, except yourself.”
18 – “When the individual is in conflict within himself he must inevitably create conflict without, and only he can bring about peace within himself and so in the world, for he is the world.”
19 – “Most people are afraid to stand alone; they are afraid to think things out for themselves, afraid to feel deeply, to explore and discover the whole meaning of life.”
20 – “When you are young you are curious to know all about everything, why the sun shines, what the stars are, all about the moon and the world around us; but as we grow older, knowledge becomes a mere collection of information without any feeling.”
21 – “Study then, but study first that which will most help you to help others. Work patiently at your studies, not that men may think you wise, not even that you may have the happiness of being wise, but because only the wise man can be wisely helpful.”
22 – “In a deep river there is richness and many fish can live; but the shallow pool is soon dried up by the strong sun, and nothing remains except mud and dirt. For most of us, love is an extraordinarily difficult thing to understand because our lives are very shallow.”
23 – “Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action.”
24 – “Peace is the break between two wars.”
25 – “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
26 – “One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
27 – “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
28 – “You can only be afraid of what you think you know.”
29 – “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
30 – “Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.”
Apply One
I encourage you to focus on one or two of these quotes this week and invite them into your meditation practice. (LINK Meditation)
Focus on them as you go about your day and use them as a springboard that can help you soar into the true you.
Remember, you yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything.
Peace
Happiness
Compassion
Respect
Jeffon Seely
Three Key Life