Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
- Life is relationship with things, people, and ideas; and if we
do not meet these relationships rightly, fully, then conflicts arise
from the impact of the challenge.
- You cannot find truth through anybody else.
- In awareness there is only the present—that is, being aware, you
see the past process of influence which controls the present and
modifies the future. Awareness is an integral process, not a process
of division.
- Most of us thrive on self-pity, blaming others, and this
occupation doesn't bring clarity.
- What is the root cause of this conflict and contradiction? Ask
this question of yourself. Do not try to put into words an explanation, but simply enquire non-verbally, if you can, into the basis of this contradiction and division, this strife and conflict.
- Awareness is to understand the activities of the self, the 'I',
in its relationship with people, with ideas and with things. That
awareness is from moment to moment.
- Fear must exist as long as there is an urge to be or to become,
which is the pursuit of success, with all its frustrations and
tortuous contradictions. You can teach concentration, but attention
cannot be taught, just as you cannot possibly teach freedom from
fear, and in understanding these causes there is the elimination of
fear.
- Do not suppress but try to look at the conflict, try to
understand it. You cannot understand it if you want to push it
aside, if you want to run away. You have to put it, as it were, on a
table, and look, and then out of that watching, comes understanding.
- If you can understand the confusion, the struggle, the misery,
the deep longings that you have, then in that very understanding,
you will find something about which you do not have to ask another.
- When the mind understands the futility, the utter uselessness of
trying to fill its own emptiness through dependence, through
knowledge, through belief, then it is capable of looking at it
without fear.
- As long as you remain within that field of the culture, of society, of greed, of envy, of achievement, you are not a free human being. You may think you have free will, but you are just part of this monstrous society, a conditioned human being.
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