Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

Meditation is the action of silence.

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that is why it is so important to insist upon the final thing first, and then all the regulations, all the disciplines, will follow.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.