Simplicity of heart is far more important and significant than simplicity of possessions.

Without meditation, the heart becomes a desert, a wasteland.

Most people are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. Love will arise in your heart when you have no barrier between yourself and another.

Meditation is the understanding of the heart. When the heart cleanses the mind of all its tricks and absurd devices, its conceits and stratagems, meditation flows as clearly as the fresh waters of a river.

It is very important to smile, to be happy, because without a song in one’s heart, life becomes very dull.

The man who is empty of heart writes a great deal about love; the man who is unhappy composes music on love and beauty. —Krishnamurti

To fill your heart with the things of the mind is to leave no room for love.

Progress is such a comforting word, so reassuring, a word with which we hypnotise ourselves.

What you seek you will find, but it will not be truth.

Watch the process of your own thinking. How cunning and deceptive it is! —Krishnamurti

Love is a strange thing; as long as thought is woven through it, it is not love.

The unknown cannot be experienced. You may think or speculate about the unknown, or be afraid of it, but thought cannot comprehend it.

The known looking at the unknown brings about fear.

All escapes are the same; there is no superior or inferior escape.

If you want cooperation from your wife or husband, your child, or your neighbour, how do you set about it? You set about it by loving the person.

Relationship is absolutely necessary; otherwise, you cannot exist. Relationship means co-operation. Relationship means love and generosity.

We carry the memory of yesterday, and it darkens our being.

How necessary it is to die each day, to die each minute to everything, to the many yesterdays and to the moment that has just gone by!

The object of attachment offers me the means of escape from my own emptiness.

By our own thoughts and actions we are bound, but we are not aware that we are bound.