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?

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.