Jiddu Krishnamurti World Quotations

Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.

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.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

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...

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

As we are - the world is.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.

The world is me and I am the world.

What is correct action in a deteriorating world?

You are the world and the world is you.

As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.

Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.