Jiddu Krishnamurti: What Brings Order In This World Is To Love and Let Love Do What It Will

Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end ― you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. 

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself. 

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

And as we are ― the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments ― and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another ― and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. 

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage. It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem. 

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love. 

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To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

We are the world. The world is you and me, the world is not separate from you and me. We have created this world ― the world of violence, the world of wars, the world of religious divisions, sex, anxieties, the utter lack of communication with each other, with no sense of compassion, consideration for another. Wherever one goes in any country throughout the world, human beings, that is, you and another, suffer; we are anxious, we are uncertain, we don’t know what is going to happen. Everything has become uncertain. Right through the world as human beings we are in sorrow, fear, anxiety, violence, uncertain of everything, insecure. There is a common relationship between us all. We are the world essentially, basically, fundamentally. The world is you, and you are the world. Realizing that fundamentally, deeply, not romantically, not intellectually but actually, then we see that our problem is a global problem. It is not my problem or your particular problem, it is a human problem.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

Be a light unto oneself.

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.