Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Being in relationship with others helps us know ourselves better.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

'Saathiya' is about love, discovering yourself through the way you love someone.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.