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We Carry About Us The Burden Of What Thousands Of People Have Said And The Memories Of All Our Misfortunes. To Abandon All That Is To Be Alone, And The Mind That Is Alone Is Not Only Innocent But Young -- Not In Time Or Age, But Young, Innocent, Alive At Whatever Age -- And Only Such A Mind Can See That Which Is Truth And That Which Is Not Measurable By Words.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

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We Carry About Us The Burden Of What Thousands Of People Have Said And The Memories Of All Our Misfortunes. To Abandon All That Is To Be Alone, And The Mind That Is Alone Is Not Only Innocent But Young -- Not In Time Or Age, But Young, Innocent, Alive At Whatever Age -- And Only Such A Mind Can See That Which Is Truth And That Which Is Not Measurable By Words.

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The Earth Doesn't Belong To Anyone. It Is The Land Upon Which All Of Us Are To Live For Many Years, Ploughing, Reaping And Destroying. You Are Always A Guest On This Earth And Have The Austerity Of A Guest. Austerity Is Far Deeper Than Owning Only A Few Things. The Very Word Austerity Has Been Spoilt By The Monks, By The Sannyasis, By The Hermits. Sitting On That High Hill Alone In The Solitude Of Many Things, Many Rocks And Little Animals And Ants, That Word Has No Meaning.

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When We Stop Learning In Our Relationship, Whether We Are Studying, Playing Or Whatever We Are Doing, And Merely Act From The Knowledge We Have Accumulated, Then Disorder Comes.

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Religion, Politics, Society Are Exploiting You, And You Are Being Conditioned By Them; You Are Being Forced In A Particular Direction. You Are Not Human Beings; You Are Mere Cogs In A Machine.

There Is Not First Understanding And Then Action. When You Understand, That Very Understanding Is Action.

Freedom From Something Is Not Freedom.

We Carry About Us The Burden Of What Thousands Of People Have Said And The Memories Of All Our Misfortunes. To Abandon All That Is To Be Alone, And The Mind That Is Alone Is Not Only Innocent But Young -- Not In Time Or Age, But Young, Innocent, Alive At Whatever Age -- And Only Such A Mind Can See That Which Is Truth And That Which Is Not Measurable By Words.

Imagination Builds The Image Of The Self, And Thought Then Functions Within Its Shadows. From This Self-concept Grows The Conflict Between What Is And What Should Be, The Conflict In Duality.

When The Mind Sees Itself In The Mirror Of Relationship, From That Perception There Is Self-knowledge.

Activity That Perishes, That Is Not Productive Of The Eternal, Of The Lasting, Is Of Very Little Use.

If You Do Not Give Your Children Freedom, When They Grow Up, They Will Break Away From The Family, And Then Your Hearts Will Be Broken.

To Be Whole, Nonfragmented In Action, In Life, In Every Kind Of Relationship, That Is The Very Essence Of Sanity. Sanity Means To Be Whole, Healthy And Holy.

Take A Journey Into The Things Which You Are Carrying, The Known- Not Into The Unknown-into What You Already Know: Your Pleasures, Your Delights, Your Despairs, Your Sorrows. Take A Journey Into That, That Is All You Have.

To Be Is To Be Related.

We Need Tremendous Energy To Bring About A Psychological Change In Ourselves As Human Beings, Because We Have Lived Far Too Long In A World Of Make-belief, In A World Of Brutality, Violence, Despair, Anxiety. To Live Humanly, Sanely, One Has To Change.

It Seems To Me That The Real Problem Is The Mind Itself And Not The Problem Which The Mind Has Created And Tries To Solve.

Joy Is Something Entirely Different From Pleasure.

Contentment Is Never The Outcome Of Fulfillment, Of Achievement, Or Of The Possession Of Things; It Is Not Born Of Action Or Inaction. It Comes With The Fullness Of What Is, Not In The Alteration Of It.

We Are Very Defensive, And Therefore Aggressive, When We Hold On To A Particular Belief, A Dogmas, Or When We Worship Our Particular Nationality, With The Rag That Is Called The Flag.

I Do Not Know If You Have Ever Noticed That The More You Struggle To Understand, The Less You Understand Any Problem. But, The Moment You Cease To Struggle And Let The Problem Tell You The Whole Story, Give All Its Significance - Then There Is Understanding, Which Means, Obviously, That To Understand, The Mind Must Be Quiet.

Thought Nourishes, Sustains And Gives Continuity To Fear And Pleasure.

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One Of The Functions Of Thought Is To Be Occupied All The Time With Something. Most Of Us Want To Have Our Minds Continually Occupied So That We Are Prevented From Seeing Ourselves As We Actually Are. We Are Afraid To Be Empty. We Are Afraid To Look At Our Fears.

It Is Only When The Mind Is Free From The Old That It Meets Everything Anew, And In That There Is Joy.

True Education Is To Learn How To Think, Not What To Think. If You Know How To Think, If You Really Have That Capacity, Then You Are A Free Human Being-free Of Dogmas, Superstitions, Ceremonies-and Therefore You Can Find Out What Religion Is.

Space And Time Are Real For The Man Who Is Yet Imperfect, And Space Is Divided For Him Into Dimensions; Time, Into Past, Present, And Future.

When You Say That I Have Followers, Let Me Assure You That I Do Not Want Followers, Nor Would I Ever Encourage The Idea Of Following.

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There Is An Art Of Seeing Things As They Are: Without Naming, Without Being Caught In A Network Of Words, Without Thinking Interfering With Perception.

It Is Astonishingly Beautiful And Interesting, How Thought Is Absent When You Have An Insight. Thought Cannot Have An Insight.

A Mind That Is Afraid Withers Away; It Cannot Function Properly.

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.

Aloneness Is Obviously Not Isolation, And It Is Not Uniqueness. To Be Unique Is Merely To Be Exceptional In Some Way, Whereas To Be Completely Alone Demands Extraordinary Sensitivity, Intelligence, Understanding.

But The Healing Of The Mind Is Something Totally Different. That Healing Gradually Takes Place If You Are With Nature, With That Orange On The Tree, And The Blade Of Grass That Pushes Through The Cement, And The Hills Covered, Hidden, By The Clouds.

Knowing The Cause Of Something Is Not Going To Help You To Be Free Of It.

Though We Are All Human Beings, We Have Built Walls Between Ourselves And Our Neighbors Through Nationalism, Through Race, Caste, And Class - Which Again Breeds Isolation, Loneliness.

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The Demand To Be Safe In A Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow And Fear.

Fear Begins And Ends With The Desire To Be Secure; Inward And Outward Security, With The Desire To Be Certain, To Have Permanency. The Continuity Of Permanence Is Sought In Every Direction, In Virtue, In Relationship, In Action, In Experience, In Knowledge, In Outward And Inward Things. To Find Security And Be Secure Is The Everlasting Cry. It Is This Insistent Demand That Breeds Fear.

There Is Only That Inevitable Danger As Long As There Is Lack Of Understanding; But The Moment The Individual Understands, There Will Be No Formation Of Religion.

If Your Eyes Are Blinded With Your Worries, You Cannot See The Beauty Of The Sunset.

All Ideologies Are Idiotic, Whether Religious Or Political, For It Is Conceptual Thinking, The Conceptual Word, Which Has So Unfortunately Divided Man.

When We Suffer We Have Made It Into A Personal Affair. We Shut Out All The Suffering Of Mankind.

Silence Is Difficult And Arduous; It Is Not To Be Played With. It Isn't Something That You Can Experience By Reading A Book, Or By Listening To A Talk, Or By Sitting Together, Or By Retiring Into A Wood Or A Monastery. I Am Afraid None Of These Things Will Bring About This Silence. This Silence Demands Intense Psychological Work. You Have To Be Burningly Aware - Aware Of Your Speech, Aware Of Your Snobbishness, Aware Of Your Fears, Your Anxieties, Your Sense Of Guilt. And When You Die To All That, Then Out Of That Dying Comes The Beauty Of Silence.

Surely, Life Is Not Merely A Job, An Occupation; Life Is Something Extraordinarily Wide And Profound, It Is A Great Mystery, A Vast Realm In Which We Function As Human Beings.

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A Man Who Says, 'i Want To Change, Tell Me How To', Seems Very Earnest, Very Serious, But He Is Not. He Wants An Authority Whom He Hopes Will Bring About Order In Himself. But Can Authority Ever Bring About Inward Order? Order Imposed From Without Must Always Breed Disorder.

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By Our Pontifical Assertions, Our Superior Impatience, And Our Casual Brushing Aside Of Their Curiosity, We Do Not Encourage Their Inquiry, For We Are Rather Apprehensive Of What May Be Asked Of Us; We Do Not Foster Their Discontent, For We Ourselves Have Ceased To Question.

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The Crisis Is Not In The Outward Technological Advancement, But Rather In The Way We Think, And The Way We Live, And The Way We Feel. I Think That Is Where A Revolution Must Take Place.

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Order Cannot Possibly Be Brought About Through Conformity To A Pattern, Under Any Circumstances.

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We Want The Children To Conform; We Want To Control Their Minds, To Shape Their Conduct, Their Way Of Living, So That They Will Fit Into The Pattern Of Society, That Is What Every Parent Wants, Is It Not? And That Is Exactly What Is Happening, Whether It Be In America Or In Europe, In Russia Or In India. The Pattern May Vary Slightly, But They All Want The Child To Conform.

Tradition Becomes Our Security, And When The Mind Is Secure It Is In Decay.

Clever People, People Who Are Cunning, Do Not Know What Love Is Because Their Minds Are So Sharp, Because They Are So Clever, Because They Are So Superficial - Which Means To Be On The Surface, And Love Is Not A Thing That Exists On The Surface.

The Man Who Is Seeking Truth Is Free Of All Societies And Cultures.

Fear Is Not Of The Unknown, But Of Loss Of The Known.

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Introspection Is Self-improvement And Therefore Introspection Is Self-centeredness. Awareness Is Not Self-improvement. On The Contrary, It Is The Ending Of The Self, Of The “i,” With All Its Peculiar Idiosyncrasies, Memories, Demands, And Pursuits. In Introspection There Is Identification And Condemnation. In Awareness There Is No Condemnation Or Identification; Therefore, There Is No Self-improvement. There Is A Vast Difference Between The Two.

The Beauty Of Meditation Is That You Never Know Where You Are, Where You Are Going, What The End Is.

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What Meaning Has Such Meditation? There Is No Meaning; There Is No Utility. But In That Meditation There Is A Movement Of Great Ecstasy Which Is Not To Be Confounded With Pleasure. It Is This Ecstasy Which Gives To The Eye, To The Brain And To The Heart, The Quality Of Innocency. Without Seeing Life As Something Totally New, It Is A Routine, A Boredom, A Meaningless Affair. So Meditation Is Of The Greatest Importance. It Opens The Door To The Incalculable, To The Measureless.

The Mind Has To Be Empty To See Clearly.

And The Idea Of Ourselves Is Our Escape From The Fact What We Really Are.

...choice In Every Form Is Conflict. Contradiction Is Inevitable In Choice; This Contradiction, Inner And Outer Breeds Confusion And Misery.

When The Wind Blows Across The Various Continents, It Does Not Bring With It The Nationalities Of The Countries Through Which It Passes. So Likewise With Life.

Meditation Is The Process Of Understanding Your Own Mind.

There's A Great And Unutterable Beauty In All This.

To Understand What Is Right Meditation There Must Be An Awareness Of The Operation Of One's Own Consciousness, And Then There Is Complete Attention.

To Ask The 'right' Question Is Far More Important Than To Receive The Answer. The Solution Of A Problem Lies In The Understanding Of The Problem; The Answer Is Not Outside The Problem, It Is In The Problem.

Religion, It Seems To Me, Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Any Belief, With Any Priest, With Any Church Or So-called Sacred Book. The State Of The Religious Mind Can Be Understood Only When We Begin To Understand What Beauty Is; And The Understanding Of Beauty Must Be Approached Through Total Aloneness.

A Cup Is Useful Only When It Is Empty; And A Mind That Is Filled With Beliefs, With Dogmas, With Assertions, With Quotations Is Really An Uncreative Mind.

If You Have A Great Many Desires, You Will Gradually Eliminate Them One By One, Until You Allow Certain Desires To Dominate And The Others To Die Away.

To Understand Oneself Requires Patience, Tolerant Awareness; The Self Is A Book Of Many Volumes Which You Cannot Read In A Day, But When Once You Begin To Read, You Must Read Every Word, Every Sentence, Every Paragraph For In Them Are The Intimations Of The Whole. The Beginning Of It Is The Ending Of It. If You Know How To Read, Supreme Wisdom Is To Be Found.

What Is Important In Meditation Is The Quality Of The Mind And The Heart.it Is Not What You Achieve, Or What You Say You Attain, But Rather The Quality Of A Mind That Is Innocent And Vulnerable.

After All You Grow By Experience. But While Your Son Is Young, You Should Try To Set Before Him His Ultimate Goal.

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.

Freedom Is Not A Reaction; Freedom Is Not A Choice. . Freedom Is Found In The Choiceless Awareness Of Our Daily Existence And Activity.

Fear Is What Prevents The Flowering Of The Mind.

Meditation Is Not A Withdrawal From Life. Meditation Is A Process Of Understanding Oneself.

We Want To Be Famous As A Writer, As A Poet, As A Painter, As A Politician, As A Singer, Or What You Will. Why? Because We Really Don't Love What We Are Doing. If You Loved To Sing, Or To Paint, Or To Write Poems, If You Really Loved It You Would Not Be Concerned With Whether You Are Famous Or Not.

Learning In The True Sense Of The Word Is Possible Only In That State Of Attention, In Which There Is No Outer Or Inner Compulsion. Right Thinking Can Come About Only When The Mind Is Not Enslaved By Tradition And Memory.

Where There Is Fear There Is Aggression.

Identification With The Rag Called The National Flag Is An Emotional And Sentimental Factor And For That Factor You Are Willing To Kill Another - And That Is Called, The Love Of Your Country, Love Of The Neighbor . . .? One Can See That Where Sentiment And Emotion Come In, Love Is Not.

You Have Been Overcome; And Whether You Are Overcome By Envy Or By A So-called Noble Influence, You Are Still A Slave, You Are Not Free.

The More You Know Yourself, The More Clarity There Is.

Religion Is The Frozen Thought Of Man Out Of Which They Build Temples.

Conflict Is Not In The Feeling Of Being In Love. The Feeling Of Being In Love Is Utterly Without Conflict. There Is No Loss Of Energy In Being In Love.

Perception Without The Perceiver In Meditation Is To Commune With The Height And Depth Of The Immense. This Perception Is Entirely Different From Seeing An Object Without An Observer, Because In The Perception Of Meditation There Is No Object And Therefore No Experience. Can, However, Take Place When The Eyes Are Open And One Is Surrounded By Objects Of Every Kind. But Then These Objects Have No Importance At All. One Sees Them But There Is No Process Of Recognition, Which Means There Is No Experiencing.

Freedom Of Life Does Not Mean Disorder Of Life, Does Not Mean Chaos, And Just Everyone Doing Anything He Wants. That Is Not The Freedom Of Life. The Tree, When You Give It A Chance, Protect It When It Is Young, Will Grow Straight, Because It Has Developed Its Own Resistance; But The Moment You Make It Delicate, Then It Gets Crooked.

It Is Necessary That One Be A Light To Oneself In A World That Is Becoming Utterly Dark.

Can't You Fall In Love And Not Have A Possessive Relationship? I Love Someone And She Loves Me And We Get Married - That Is All Perfectly Straightforward And Simple, In That There Is No Conflict At All.

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As Long As You Ask Questions You Are Breaking Through, But The Moment You Begin To Accept, You Are Psychologically Dead. So Right Through Life Don't Accept A Thing, But Inquire, Investigate. Then You Will Find That Your Mind Is Something Really Extraordinary, It Has No End, And To Such A Mind There Is No Death.

Seeing, Observing, Listening, These Are The Greatest Acts

To Be Free Of All Authority, Of Your Own And That Of Another, Is To Die To Everything Of Yesterday, So That Your Mind Is Always Fresh, Always Young, Innocent, Full Of Vigour And Passion. It Is Only In That State That One Learns And Observes. And For This, A Great Deal Of Awareness Is Required, Actual Awareness Of What Is Going On Inside Yourself, Without Correcting It Or Telling It What It Should Or Should Not Be, Because The Moment You Correct It You Have Established Another Authority, A Censor.

A Mind That Practices Love Cannot Love.

If People Are Foolish, They Are Bound To Mix The Personality And The Truth, And To Build A Temple Around The Personality And Form A Religion.

Meditation Is Not A Means To An End. It Is Both The Means And The End.

Discipline Does Not Mean Suppression And Control, Nor Is It Adjustment To A Pattern Or Ideology. It Means A Mind That Sees 'what Is' And Learns From 'what Was'.

Most People Are Unhappy; And They Are Unhappy Because There Is No Love In Their Hearts.

To Be Religious Is To Be Sensitive To Reality.

Wherever There Is A Suitable Environment For The Fulfilment Of Life, It Will Fulfil Itself.

You Cannot Explain To Someone Who Comes With No Idea Of What You Are Talking About Without Being Misunderstood.

It Is Utterly And Irrevocably Possible To Empty All Hurts And Therefore To Love, To Have Compassion. To Have Compassion Means To Have Passion For All Things, Not Just Between Two People, But For All Human Beings, For All Things Of The Earth, The Animals, The Trees - Everything The Earth Contains. When We Have Such Compassion We Will Not Despoil The Earth As We Are Doing Now And We Will Have No Wars.

This Is No Magnificent Deed, Because I Do Not Want Followers, And I Mean This. The Moment You Follow Someone You Cease To Follow Truth. I Am Not Concerned Whether You Pay Attention To What I Say Or Not. I Want To Do A Certain Thing In The World And I Am Going To Do It With Unwavering Concentration. I Am Concerning Myself With Only One Essential Thing: To Set Man Free. I Desire To Free Him From All Cages, From All Fears, And Not To Found Religions, New Sects, Nor To Establish New Theories And New Philosophies.

Compassion Being Action Without Motive, Without Self-interest, Without Any Sense Of Fear, Without Any Sense Of Pleasure.

Why Is One A Slave To Thought ? Why Has Thought Become So Important In All Our Lives -thought Being Ideas, Being The Response To The Accumulated Memories In The Brain Cells? Perhaps Many Of You Have Not Even Asked Such A Question Before, Or If You Have You May Have Said, "it's Of Very Little Importance- What Is Important Is Emotion." But I Don't See How You Can Separate The Two. If Thought Does Not Give Continuity To Feeling, Feeling Dies Very Quickly. So Why In Our Daily Lives, In Our Grinding, Boring, Frightened Lives, Has Thought Taken On Such Inordinate Importance?

Meditation Is Not The Pursuit Of Pleasure And The Search For Happiness. Meditation, On The Contrary, Is A State Of Mind In Which There Is No Concept Or Formula, And Therefore Total Freedom. It Is Only To Such A Mind That This Bliss Comes Unsought And Uninvited. Once It Is There, Though You May Live In The World With All Its Noise, Pleasure And Brutality, They Will Not Touch That Mind.

If You Come Across Fear, Stare It In Its Eyes. Face It And You Will Notice That Fear Fades Away.

Truth Does Not Belong To An Individual.

The Moment I Am Aware That I Am Aware, I Am Not Aware. Awareness Means The Observer Is Not.

When There Is Love, There Is No Duty. When You Love Your Wife, You Share Everything With Her-your Property, Your Trouble, Your Anxiety, Your Joy. You Do Not Dominate. You Are Not The Man And She Is Not The Woman To Be Used And Thrown Aside, A Sort Of Breeding Machine To Carry On Your Name. When There Is Love, The Word Duty Disappears.

Intuition Is The Whisper Of The Soul.

And As We Are - The World Is. That Is, If We Are Greedy, Envious, Competitive, Our Society Will Be Competitive, Envious, Greedy, Which Brings Misery And War. The State Is What We Are.

If You Have No Love, Do What You Will - Go After All The Gods On Earth, Do All The Social Activities, Try To Reform The Poor, The Politics, Write Books, Write Poems - You Are A Dead Human Being. Without Love Your Problems Will Increase, Multiply Endlessly.

Insight Is Not A Matter Of Memory, Of Knowledge And Time, Which Are All Thought.

The Real Student Is Studying, Learning, Inquiring, Exploring, Not Just Until He Is Twenty Or Twenty-five, But Throughout Life.

The Observer Is The Observed.

The Primary Cause Of Disorder In Ourselves Is The Seeking Of Reality Promised By Another.

When You Are Free, You Have No Choice.

Acquiring Knowledge Is A Form Of Imitation.

Acquiring Knowledge

Observe, And In That Observation There Is Neither The "observer" Nor The "observed" - There Is Only Observation Taking Place.

That Is, When The Mind Ceases To Create, Then There Is Creation.

From These Prejudices There Arises Conflict, Transient Joys And Suffering. But We Are Unconscious Of This, Unconscious That We Are Slaves To Certain Forms Of Tradition, To Social And Political Environment, To False Values.

Meditation Is The Emptying Of The Mind Of All The Things That The Mind Has Put Together. If You Do That -perhaps You Won't, But It Doesn't Matter, Just Listen To This- You Will Find That There Is An Extraordinary Space In The Mind, And That Space Is Freedom. So You Must Demand Freedom At The Very Beginning, And Not Just Wait, Hoping To Have It At The End. You Must Seek Out The Significance Of Freedom In Your Work, In Your Relationships, In Everything That You Do. Then You Will Find That Meditation Is Creation.

It Is Only The Religious Mind That Is A Truly Revolutionary Mind.

When One Loses The Deep Intimate Relationship With Nature, Then Temples, Mosques And Churches Become Important.

Happiness Comes Uninvited: And The Moment That You Are Conscious That You Are Happy, You Are No Longer Happy.

Do Not Pursue What Should Be, But Understand What Is.

The Real Is Near, You Do Not Have To Seek It; And A Man Who Seeks Truth Will Never Find It. Truth Is In What Is - And That Is The Beauty Of It. But The Moment You Conceive It, The Moment You Seek It, You Begin To Struggle; And A Man Who Struggles Cannot Understand. That Is Why We Have To Be Still, Observant, Passively Aware.

Isn't The Origin Of Conflict Ego? If There Is No Ego There Is No Becoming.

You Know, In The Case Of Most Of Us, The Mind Is Noisy, Everlastingly Chattering To Itself, Soliloquizing Or Chattering About Something, Or Trying To Talk To Itself, To Convince Itself Of Something; It Is Always Moving, Noisy.

It's No Measure Of Health To Be Well Adjusted To A Profoundly Sick Society.

The Crisis Is Not Out There In The World, It Is Within Our Own Consciousness.

Is The Ground A Philosophical Concept? Has Mind A Relationship To The Ground? Is It An Idea To Be Investigated? Is The Ground Put Together By Thought?

Until A Radical Change Takes Place And We Wipe Out All Nationalities, All Ideologies, All Religious Divisions, And Establish A Global Relationship - Psychologically First, Inwardly Before Organizing The Outer - We Shall Go On With Wars.

The Only Freedom Is The Freedom From The Known.

To Go Far You Must Begin Near, And The Nearest Step Is The Most Important One.

No Book Can Teach You About Yourself, No Psychologist, None Of The Professors Or Philosophers. What They Can Teach You Is What They Think You Are Or What They Think You Should Be.

Not To Know Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

All Tradition Is Merely The Past.

Knowledge, Idea, Belief Stands In The Way Of Wisdom.

My Only Concern Is To Set Men Absolutely, Unconditionally Free.

The Craving To Become Causes Fears; To Be, To Achieve, And So To Depend Engenders Fear.

When You Practice Meditation, The Meditator Becomes All-important And Not The Movement Of Meditation.

Begin Where You Are. Read Every Word, Every Phrase, Every Paragraph Of The Mind, As It Operates Through Thought.

And For This You Must Have Quiet And Solitude. But Society Does Not Allow You To Have Them. You Must Be With People, Outwardly Active At All Costs. If You Are Alone You Are Considered Antisocial Or Peculiar, Or You Are Afraid Of Your Own Loneliness.

Can I Live A Life, Daily Life, Without Sense Of Self-concern?

If You Set Out To Meditate, It Will Not Be Meditation. If You Set Out To Be Good, Goodness Will Never Flower.

Do You Know Your Particular Fears? And What Do You Usually Do With Them? You Run Away From Them, Don't You, Or Invent Ideas And Images To Cover Them? But To Run Away From Fear Is Only To Increase It.

In Oneself Lies The Whole World And If You Know How To Look And Learn, The Door Is There And The Key Is In Your Hand. Nobody On Earth Can Give You Either The Key Or The Door To Open, Except Yourself.

Achieve Order Within Yourself...an Inward Tranquility Which Knows No Disturbance At Any Moment...in The Daily Life Of The Home And The Office.

Meditation Is Like The Breeze That Comes In When You Leave The Window Open; But If You Deliberately Keep It Open, Deliberately Invite It To Come, It Will Never Appear.

The Only Thing That Really Matters Is That There Be An Action Of Goodness, Love And Intelligence In Living. Is Goodness Individual Or Collective, Is Love Personal Or Impersonal, Is Intelligence Yours, Mine Or Somebody Else? If It Is Yours Or Mine Then It Is Not Intelligence, Or Love, Or Goodness. If Goodness Is An Affair Of The Individual Or Of The Collective, According To One's Particular Preference Or Decision, Then It Is No Longer Goodness.

Can You Look At A Flower Without Thinking?

When We Talk About Understanding, Surely It Takes Place Only When The Mind Listens Completely - The Mind Being Your Heart, Your Nerves, Your Ears- When You Give Your Whole Attention To It.

I Don't Mind What Happens.

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.

To Keep Always In The Same Place Means To Stagnate.

One Does Not Concern Oneself With The Expressions, But Rather With Life. You Are Looking At Life Through The Wrong End Of The Telescope When You Look At The Expressions Of Life.

Am I Caught In A Self-centred, Narrow Little Cell Which Refuses To Look Beyond? Do I See It When You Come Along And Tell Me That My Brain Is The Brain Of All Mankind?

From Innumerable Complexities We Must Grow To Simplicity; We Must Become Simple In Our Inward Life And In Our Outward Needs.

Love, And Don't Be Caught In Opinions And Ideas About What Love Is Or Should Be.

Student: Sir, You Said You Must Change The World. How Can You Change It, Sir? Krishnamurti: What Is The World? The World Is Where You Live - Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours. And Your Family, Your Friends, Your Neighbours Can Be Extended And That Is The World. Now, You Are The Centre Of That World. That Is The World You Live In. Now How Will You Change The World? By Changing Yourself?

It Is Love Alone That Leads To Right Action. What Brings Order In The World Is To Love And Let Love Do What It Will.

As We Are Concerned With What Others Think Of Us, So We Are Anxious To Know All About Them; And From This Arise The Crude And Subtle Forms Of Snobbishness And The Worship Of Authority. Thus We Become More And More Externalized And Inwardly Empty. The More Externalized We Are, The More Sensations And Distractions There Must Be, And This Gives Rise To A Mind That Is Never Quiet, That Is Not Capable Of Deep Search And Discovery.

Live With It. You Live With Pleasure, Don't You? Why Don't You Live With Suffering Completely? Can You Live With It In The Sense Of Not Escaping From It? What Takes Place? Watch. The Mind Is Very Clear, Sharp. It Is Faced With The Fact. The Very Suffering Transformed Into Passion Is Enormous. From That Arises A Mind That Can Never Be Hurt. Full Stop. That Is The Secret.

If We Want To Change Existing Conditions, We Must First Transform Ourselves, Which Means That We Must Become Aware Of Our Own Actions, Thoughts And Feelings In Everyday Life.

The World Is Not Something Separate From You And Me; The World, Society, Is The Relationship That We Establish Or Seek To Establish Between Each Other. So You And I Are The Problem, And Not The World, Because The World Is The Projection Of Ourselves, And To Understand The World We Must Understand Ourselves. That World Is Not Separate From Us; We Are The World, And Our Problems Are The World's Problems.

Without Freedom From The Past, There Is No Freedom To All.

Meditation Is The Movement Of Love. It Isn't The Love Of The One Or Of The Many. It Is Like Water That Anyone Can Drink Out Of Any Jar.

In The Search For Reality, Energy Creates Its Own Discipline. But Mere Discipline, Without Full Comprehension Of All This, Has No Meaning, It Is A Most Destructive Thing.

Sorrow Is Not In Death But In Loneliness, And Conflict Comes When You Seek Consolation, Forgetfullness, Explanations, And Illusions.

The Very Attention Given To Finding Out If The Mind Can Be Completely Quiet Is Quietness.

It Is Necessary For All Of Us To Awaken In Ourselves This Spirit Of Cooperation, For Then It Will Not Be A Mere Plan Or Agreement Which Causes Us To Work Together, But An Extraordinary Feeling Of Togetherness, The Sense Of Joy In Being And Doing Together Without Any Thought Of Reward Or Punishment.

Most Of Us Waste Our Energy Through Chattering - Endlessly Chattering, Gossiping, Criticising, Backbiting.

I Have Only One Purpose: To Make People Free, To Urge Them Towards Freedom, To Help Them To Break Away From All Limitations, For That Alone Will Give Them Eternal Happiness, Will Give Them The Unconditional Realization Of Self.

A Consistent Thinker Is A Thoughtless Person, Because He Conforms To A Pattern; He Repeats Phrases And Thinks In A Groove.

Only When The Mind Is Tranquil-through Self-knowledge And Not Through Imposed Self-discipline-only Then, In That Tranquillity, In That Silence, Can Reality Come Into Being. It Is Only Then That There Can Be Bliss, That There Can Be Creative Action.

Intelligence Is Not Discernment And Judgment Or Critical Evaluation.

Freedom Comes With Self-knowledge, When The Mind Goes Above And Beyond The Hindrances It Has Created For Itself.

Tradition Implies Authority, Conformity, Imitation, Following.

What You Are The World Is. And Without Your Transformation, There Can Be No Transformation Of The World.

Its Beautiful To Be Alone. To Be Alone Does Not Mean To Be Lonely. It Means The Mind Is Not Influenced And Contaminated By Society.

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