Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Teacher, Parent

• So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Know Yourself, Masters

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Talks with American Students”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

• Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Men, Land

  Speech in Holland, 3 August 1929, in Lilly Heber 'Krishnamurti' (1931) ch. 2

• All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Teacher

• Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational, Teacher, Real

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.106, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

• You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Leader, Guru

  "Zeitgeist". Documentary, History, 2007.

• What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Teacher, Laughter

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

• If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Teacher, Book

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Beyond violence”, Harpercollins College Div

• You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Being Yourself, Teacher, Perception

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Talks with American Students”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

• Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Jesus, Son

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

• The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved. It is like saying: 'I have painted a picture'. It is like saying: 'I have written a poem'. It is an assertion of the fact of attainment, rather than the narrow understanding that is given to labels and phrases. What the phrase indicates is of importance.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Heart, Understanding

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

• We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Reality, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.134, M-y books ltd

• The reality is that I am the Teacher.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Reality

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

• As the river enters the sea and loses itself in the sea, so Krishnamurti has entered into that Life which is represented by some as The Christ, by others as The Buddha, by others still, as the Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti as an entity fully developed has entered into the Sea of Life and is the Teacher, because the moment you enter into that Life -which is the fulfilment of all Teachers, which is life of all the Teachers - the individual as such ceases.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Sea, Rivers

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

• What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Confusion, Personality

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

• I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, World, Christ

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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