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25/09/2026

“Intelligence is not personal, is not the outcome of argument, belief, opinion or reason. Intelligence comes into being when the brain discovers its fallibility, when it discovers what it is capable of, and what it is not.”
— Krishnamurti

20/09/2026

Knowledge will not lead to intelligence. We accumulate a great deal of knowledge about many things, but to act intelligently about what one has learned seems almost impossible.

Schools, colleges and universities cultivate knowledge about our behaviour, about the universe, about science and every form of technology, but these centres of education rarely help a human being to live a daily life of excellence.

Scholars maintain that human beings can evolve only through vast accumulations of information and knowledge. Humanity has lived through thousands and thousands of wars; has accumulated a great deal of knowledge on how to kill, yet that very knowledge is preventing us from putting an end to all wars.

We accept war as a way of life and all the brutalities, violence and killing as the normal course of our life. We know we should not kill another. This knowing is totally unrelated to the fact of killing; knowledge does not prevent our killing animals and destroying the earth.

Knowledge cannot function through intelligence, but intelligence can function with knowledge. To know is not to know; the understanding of the fact that knowledge can never solve our human problems is intelligence.

— Krishnamurti
Letters to His Schools

18/09/2026

“Corruption begins with self-interest.”
— Krishnamurti

From Rishi Valley 1984 – Students Discussion 3

17/09/2026

To be a light to oneself is the light of all others. To be a light to oneself is for the mind to be free from challenge and response, for the mind then is totally awake, wholly attentive. This attention has no centre, the one who is attentive, and so no border.

As long as there’s a centre, the ‘me’, there must be challenge and response, adequate or inadequate, pleasurable or sorrowful. The centre can never be a light to itself; its light is the artificial light of thought and it has many shadows.

Compassion is not the shadow of thought but it is light, neither yours nor another’s.

— Krishnamurti
From Krishnamurti’s Journal

15/09/2026

The whole movement of life is learning. There is never a time when there is no learning. Every action is a movement of learning, and every relationship is learning.

The accumulation of knowledge, which is called learning and to which we are so accustomed, is necessary to a limited extent, but that limitation prevents us from comprehending ourselves.

Knowledge is measurable, more or less, but in learning there is no measure. This is really very important to understand, especially if you are to grasp the full meaning of a religious life.

Knowledge is memory, but—if you have observed—the actual, the now is not memory. In observation, memory has no place. The actual is what is actually happening now; the second later is measurable and is the way of memory.

—Krishnamurti
From Letters to his Schools

14/09/2026

It is good to be alone. To be far away from the world and yet walk its streets is to be alone. To be alone walking up the path beside the rushing, noisy mountain stream, full of spring water and melting snows, is to be aware of that solitary tree, alone in its beauty.

The loneliness of a man in the street is the pain of life; he's never alone, far away, untouched and vulnerable. To be full of knowledge breeds endless misery. The demand for expression, with its frustrations and pains, is that man who walks the streets; he is never alone. Sorrow is the movement of that loneliness.

— Krishnamurti

From Krishnamurti's Journal

13/09/2026

"In the quiet stillness of the mind, that which is everlasting beauty comes, uninvited, unsought, without the noise of recognition."

—Krishnamurti

07/09/2026

A few passages from Commentaries on Living.

Available on jkrishnamurti.in — link in bio.

06/09/2026

Have you ever woken up in the morning and looked out of the window, or gone out and looked at the trees and the spring dawn? Live with it. Listen to all the sounds, to the whisper, the slight breeze among the leaves. See the light on a leaf and watch the sun coming over the hill, over the meadow; and the dry river, or sheep grazing across the hill. Watch them; look at them with a sense of affection, care that you do not want to hurt a thing. When you have such communion with nature, then your relationship with another person becomes simple, clear, without conflict.

—Krishnamurti
The Whole Movement of Life Is Learning

04/09/2026

From the 1st Students’ Discussion, Rishi Valley, 1985.

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