Robin-Elyse Holcombe > Robin-Elyse's Quotes

“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.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“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.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“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...”
― J. Krishnamurti

“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ... The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“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.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Analysis does not transform consciousness.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Only Revolution

“Truth is a pathless land.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Happy is the man who is nothing.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Flight Of The Eagle

“It is only in alert silence that truth can be.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living: First Series

“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“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.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“No one can describe reality.
You must experience it, see it, feel the whole atmosphere of it”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If you had love in your heart, you would show respect to those who have nothing and also to those who have everything; you would neither be afraid of those who have, nor disregard those who have not. Respect in the hope of reward is the outcome of fear. In love there is no fear.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“Peace can come only when there is love.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Love and Loneliness: A Compelling Investigation of Intimate Relationships, Isolation, and Self-Knowledge

“So, while you are young you must begin to find out what is this strange thing called happiness. That is an essential part of education.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Think on These Things: Penetrating Talks on Self-Knowledge and Human Society

“The mind can only gather, accumulate, deny, assert, remember, pursue. Peace is absolutely essential, because without peace we cannot live creatively.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“Peace is not something petty, created by the mind; it is enormously great, infinitely extensive, and it can be understood only when the heart is full.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Alone has quite a different meaning; alone has beauty. To be alone means something entirely different. And you must be alone. When man frees himself from the social structure of greed, envy, ambition, arrogance, achievement, status—when he frees himself from those, then he is completely alone. That is quite a different thing. Then there is great beauty, the feeling of great energy.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti