To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

As the river enters the sea and loses itself in the sea, so Krishnamurti has entered into that Life which is represented by some as The Christ, by others as The Buddha, by others still, as the Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti as an entity fully developed has entered into the Sea of Life and is the Teacher, because the moment you enter into that Life -which is the fulfilment of all Teachers, which is life of all the Teachers - the individual as such ceases.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.