"What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book – but you will not face your own life.

And that is all that matters – your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow - that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself."

Freedom From the Known, p.121


"I am not conceiving anything. I say, look."

The Awakening of Intelligence, p.232


"The speaker is only a mirror where you can see yourself. When you recognize yourself clearly, you can put aside the mirror."

Unkown source


"I go around pointing out Truth; and it is for you to recognize it or not."

K's talks 1949-1950 (Verbatim Report)...India Pg.5


"Whether I am the world teacher or the Messiah or something else is surely not important. If it is important to you then you will miss the truth of what I am saying because you will judge by the label - and the label is so flimsy. Somebody will say that I am the Messiah and somebody else will say that I am not and then where are you? What is important is to find out whether what I say is the truth by examining it and finding out whether it can be worked out in daily life. The speaker is speaking for himself, not for anybody else. He may be deceiving himself, he may be trying to pretend to be something or other. He may be, you don´t know. So have a great deal of skepticism, doubt, question."

Unknown source


Krishnamurti: If I went there to study what K is saying, I would want to investigate it, question it, doubt it, not just read something and go away. I would be reading not just to memorize, I would be reading to learn; to see what he is saying and my reactions to it, whether it corresponds or contradicts, whether he is right or I am right, so there is a constant communication and interchange between what I am reading and what I am feeling. I would want to establish a relationship between what I am reading, seeing, hearing and myself with my reactions, conditioning, and so on; a dialogue with him and me. Such a dialogue must inevitably bring about a fundamental change.

Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Limited©


"Friend, do not concern yourself with who I am; you will never know. I do not want you to accept anything I say. I do not want anything from any of you; I do not desire popularity; I do not want your flattery, your following. Because I am in love with life, I do not want anything. These questions are not of very great importance; what is of importance is the fact that you obey and allow your judgement to be perverted by authority. Your judgement, your mind, your affection, your life are being perverted by things which have no value, and herein lies sorrow."

Early Talks, 1930


"For God's sake, don't believe the speaker. He's not worth it."

Unknown source


Question: Is it your hobby to give lectures? Don't you get tired of talking? Why are you doing it?

Krishnamurti: I am glad you asked that question. You know, if you love something, you never get tired of it--I mean love in which there is no seeking of a result, no wanting something out of it. When you love something, it is not self-fulfillment, therefore there is no disappointment, there is no end. Why am I doing this? You might as well ask why the rose blooms, why the jasmine gives its scent, or why the bird flies. You see, I have tried not talking, to find out what happens if I dont talk. That is all right too. Do you understand? If you are talking because you are getting something out of it--money, a reward, a sense of your own importance--then there is weariness, then your talking is destructive, it has no meaning because it is only self-fulfillment; but if there is love in your heart, and your heart is not filled with the things of the mind, then it is like a fountain, like a spring that is timelessly giving fresh water.

This Matter of Culture, Ch 12, Pg. 90


"Nobody, unless the body has been prepared, very carefully, protected and so on-nobody can understand what went through this body. Nobody. Don't anybody pretend. Nobody. I repeat this: nobody amongst us or the public, know what went on. I know they don't. And now after seventy years it has come to an end. Not that that intelligence and energy - it' s somewhat here, every day, and especially at night. And after seventy years the body can't stand it - can't stand any more. It can't. The Indians have a lot of damned superstitions about this - that you will and the body goes - and all that kind of nonsense. You won't find another body like this, or that supreme intelligence operating in a body for many hundred years. You won't see it again. When he goes, it goes. There is no consciousness left behind of that consciousness, of that state. They'll all pretend or try to imagine they can get into touch with that. Perhaps they will somewhat if they live the teachings. But nobody has done it. Nobody. And so that's that."

After this tape was made K had nine more days to live.

Biography of K, by Mary Lutyens, Vol III, The Open Door