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“Desire makes for the separation of the thinker from his thought; the desire to become, to experience, to be more or to be less, makes for division between the experiencer and the experience. Awareness of the ways of desire is self-knowledge.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'What is accumulated is not truth' - August 20, 2007}
“To listen completely you must be silent, and that silence is not something in thought, created by thought.”
(JKTI: August 10 2007, 'If you listen completely, there is no listener' - The Collected Works, Vol. XVI, page 58)
“… thought creates the thinker; and because thoughts are transient, the thinker becomes the permanent entity. There is first the process of thought, and then thought creates the thinker, obviously. The thinker then establishes himself as a permanent entity, apart from thoughts.”
(Collected Works: Volume 8, Bombay, 10th Public Talk, 14th March, 1948)
“Thought-feeling which is intensely aware is in the process of constant self-discovery - which discovery, being true, is liberating and creative.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'All thought is distraction' - September 2, 2007)
“Thinking is an impediment to experiencing; and there is no wisdom without experiencing. Knowledge, idea, belief, stand in the way of wisdom.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I)
“Any belief that I hold, projects itself as an experience; and then I say it is true because I have experienced it."
(Collected Works, Madras, 1947)
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| AWARENESS / ATTENTION / INSIGHT
"When you see something very clearly, then you do not choose.”
(JKTI: Collected Works: Vol. XVII, 'We are not basically free at all' - page 270)
"Insight is possible only with the cessation of thought and time."
(Jayakar, A Biography, "How Far Can One Travel?" - page 455)
“When you give complete attention there is no recording. It is only when there is inattention that you record.”
(Questions and Answers, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, Page 54)
“It is attention that allows silence to come upon the mind, which is the opening of the door to creation. That is why attention is of the highest importance.… The elimination of fear is the beginning of attention. 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."
(Life Ahead)
"Perhaps it is because we are so concerned with ourselves, with our own petty little problems, our own ideas, our own pleasures, pursuits and ambitions that we are not objectively aware."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations, December 1, 2007)
"A mind that is indifferent, is aware of the shoddiness of our civilization, the shoddiness of our thought, the ugly relationships; it is aware of the street, of the beauty of a tree, or of a lovely face, a smile; and it neither denies it nor accepts it, but merely observes - not intellectually, not coldly, but with that warm, affectionate indifference."
(Bombay, 6th Public Talk, 7th March 1962)
“… please listen carefully; and you will see that when there is a fact, a truth, there is understanding of it only when I can experience the whole thing without division - and not when there is the separation of the "me" observing suffering. That is the truth.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'Integrated Understanding' - July 11, 2007)
“Consciously or unconsciously we refuse to see the essentiality of being passively aware
because we do not really want to let go of our problems; for what would we be without them?”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49 'Problems and Escapes')
“Observe, and in that observation there is neither the `observer' nor the `observed' - there is only observation taking place.”
The `observer' exists only when you accumulate in the observation…”
(The Impossible Question: Part I, Chapter 5, 'Fear and Pleasure' - 5th Public Talk, Saanen 26th July, 1970 }
“We want to find a solution, a means, a method by which to resolve this burden of life, and so we never actually look at sorrow.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The End of Sorrow' - July 24, 2007)
“There is understanding only when there is no choice, no judgment, but merely observation.
To die each day means not to carry over from yesterday all your ambitions, grievances,
your memories of fulfilment, your grudges, your hatred.”
(Collected Works: Vol. XII : Paris, 7th Public Talk, September 19, 1961)
“If you and I could see the fact without offering an opinion, interpreting, giving a significance, then the fact becomes much more alive.
… the fact is there alone, nothing else matters; then the fact has its own energy which drives you in the right direction.”
{Book of Life: 'Translation of the facts prevents seeing', August 9, 2007)
“When you see something very clearly, then you do not choose.”
{JKTI: 'We are not basically free at all' - Collected Works: Vol. XVII, page 270}
“A mind that is attached is not objective, not clear, cannot think sanely and observe directly.”
{The Impossible Question: Part II, Chapter 3}
“When you give complete attention there is no recording. It is only when there is inattention that you record. That is: you flatter me; I like it; the liking at that moment is inattention therefore recording takes place. But if when you flatter me I listen to it completely without any reaction, then there is no center which records."
(Questions and Answers: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, page 54)
“You can know yourself only when you are unaware, when you are not calculating, not protecting, not constantly watching to guide, to transform, to subdue, to control; when you see yourself unexpectedly, that is, when the mind has no preconceptions with regard to itself, when the mind is open, unprepared to meet the unknown.”
(Book of Life: 'The unguarded intellect' - September 7, 2007)
| THE SELF / SELF-KNOWLEDGE (The Fabric of the Mind)
“Without problems, without achievements and failures, the self is not.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49, 'Problems and Escapes')
"Conflict is the very structure of the self."
(Commentaries on Living: First Series, Problems and Escapes, page 124)
“The psyche is memory.”
{Krishnamurti to Himself: Ojai, California}
“When the me is absent, totally, there is beauty.”
{The Transformation of Man: page 197}
“… meditation is the emptying of the mind of the activity of the self.”
{Collected Works: Saanen, 7th Public Talk, 29th July 1973}
“Problems will always exist where the activities of the self are dominant.”
{Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 41, 'Awareness'}
“We have separated the `me', who is the observer, from that which he is observing.”
{Talks in Bombay, 3rd Public Talk, 29th January 1983}
“Self-knowledge is not the product of will; self-knowledge comes into being through awareness
of the moment by moment responses to the movement of life.”
{Commentaries on Living: Series I}
“Most of us are so weighed down by the known, by the yesterday, by the memories, by the `me',
the `self', which is but a bundle of memories accumulated yesterday, having no actual existence in itself.”
{Talks in Europe, 1967}
“It is only when "the me" in all subtle forms comes to an end that there is a state of bliss which cannot be sought after,
an ecstasy, a real joy without pain, without corruption.”
{Book of Life Daily Meditations, 'Happiness that is not of the mind' - July 6, 2007}
“However deep, wide, and extensive it may become, the self is always limited, and until it is abandoned, the mind can never be free.”
(JKTI : The Collected Works: Vol. VIII , 'Until the self is abandoned, the mind can never be free' - page 312, August 5 2007)
“The self, in its very structure, is contradictory; it is made up of many entities with different masks, each in opposition to the other.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 43, 'Consistency')
"Normally we thrive on blaming others, which is a form of self-pity."
(Freedom From The Known: 'There is only you' - page 15)
TIME (Flaws in the Mind)
“We are questioning whether there is such a thing as psychological time at all.”
{The Transformation of Man: page 178}
“The mind can only be silent when it has understood the process of time and that requires watchfulness, does it not?”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The active still mind' - October 11, 2007}
“Time is sorrow.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The duality of thinker and thought' - August 15. 2007}
“Truth is not something to be experienced. Truth is not something you can seek out and find. It is beyond time. And thought, which is of time, cannot possibly search it out and grasp it.”
(The Impossible Question: page 75}
“We are always in conflict between what is and "what should be."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The disorder that time creates' - October 4, 2007)
“Without love, you cannot wipe out the past; with love, there is no past.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, 'Self-Esteem')
“It is the past, with its tradition and its authority, that has to be negated.”
(Freedom, Love and Action: Eight Conversations, Second conversation)
“Time, which is continuity, can never find that which is eternal; eternity is not continuity.… Eternity is in the now.”
(On Self-Knowledge: Varanasi [Banaras], 1949, pp. 116-18)
“As we were saying, there is no psychological evolution. The psyche can never become or grow into something which it is not.”
(Krishnamurti to Himself: Ojai, California, 17th March 1983)
“Patience is not time. Impatience is time. Patience has no time.”
(The Way of Intelligence: Chapter 2)
FEAR
"Fear may express itself in many forms - as it does - but there is only one fear."
{KFI: 'The Problem of Fear', New Delhi, Fourth Public Talk, November 1, 1964}
“Fear exists only in relationship to an idea, and idea is the response of memory as thought."
(Commentaries on Living: First Series, 'Loneliness' - page 105)
“The mind is the instrument of perception and, to perceive truly, the mind must be made straight, it must be cleansed of all conditioning, of all fear.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'Knowledge diverts the mind' - October 14. 2007)
“We have not solved the problem of fear. What we do is to escape from it through various forms.”
(Collected Works: Volume 6, 'The Origin of Conflict' - Madras, 4th Public Talk, January 13, 1952)
"... fear breeds sorrow, and sorrow is time as thought."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'To die without argument' - November 15, 2007}
"The relationship between what one is and what one desires to be causes fear."
(Commentaries on Living: First Series, 'Fear', page 148)
“Belief is the outcome of fear.”
(Inward Revolution: Madras, 13 January 1971)
“Fearlessness is not courage but freedom from accumulation.”
(Commentaries On Living: Series II, Chapter 9, 'Effort')
“We have separated living from dying, and the interval between the living and the dying is fear.”
(Freedom from the Known: 1969, pp. 75-77)
DEATH
"We do not want to know what death is; we do not want to know the extraordinary miracle, the beauty, the depth, the vastness of death. We don't want to inquire into that something which we don't know. All we want is to continue."
(Collected Works: Volume 8, Saanen, 7th Public Talk, July 21,1963)
“You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox.”
(Freedom from the Known: 1969, page 77)
"So one has to live every day dying - dying because you are then in contact with life."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'To die without argument' - November 15 2007)
“It is one fact in life, we are all going to die. That is an absolute, irrevocable fact. And the future is now, death is now.”
(Questions & Answers 2: England, 1984, 'Why do we pray?')
“But do you know death? That is, can you while living put an end to this everlasting struggle to find in the impermanent something that will continue?”
(Collected Works, Ojai, 6th Public Talk , July 21, 1955)
THE INDIVIDUAL
“There is hope in the individual, in you, not in a system, not in the blueprint of a planned society,
not in any religious organization, but in you, the individual.”
(JKTI: 'Not in the blueprint of a planned society' - The Collected Works: Vol. IV, page 92)
“It is always the individual, never the group or the collective,
that brings about a radical change in the world, and this again is historically so.”
(JKTI: 'Transformation of the individual' - Collected Works: Vol. IX, page 226)
“The fullest development of every individual creates a society of equals.”
(Life Ahead, Introduction)
“Anything really true must be totally individual - not in the sense of self-centeredness, which is very limiting and which in itself is evil,
but individual in the sense that each one of us must experience for himself, uninfluenced, something which is not the outcome of any self-centred interest or drive.”
(JKTI: 'Anything really true must be totally individual' - The Collected Works: Vol. X, page 79)
“What the individual is, the society is. What you are matters infinitely. That is not a mere slogan but, if you go into it really deeply, you will discover how significant your actions are, how what you are affects the world in which you live - which is the world of your relationships, however small, however limited. And, if we can fundamentally alter, bring about a radical revolution in ourselves, inwardly, then there is a possibility of creating a different world, a different set of values.”
(JKTI : 'What you are matters infinitely' - The Collected Works: Vol. VI, page 362)
"Each one of us is the storehouse of all the past. The individual is the human who is all mankind. The whole history of man is written in ourselves."
(JKTI: 'The whole history of man is written in ourselves' - Freedom from the Known: page 13)
“The mass is only an invention of the capitalists and others; it does not exist.”
{Collected Works, Volume 4: Madras, 2nd Group Discussion, April 13, 1948}
THE MIND (MindandBrain)
“If we apply our mind we can solve anything…”
{Brockwood Park, 4th Public Talk, 7th September 1980)
"To be occupied with something is the nature of the mind, and its activity springs from this."
(Commentaries on Living: First Series, page 168)
“The mind would be lost without the worry of problems; it feeds on problems, whether they are world or kitchen problems,
political or personal, religious or ideological; so our problems make us petty and narrow.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49, 'Problems and Escapes')
“Consciously or unconsciously we refuse to see the essentiality of being passively aware
because we do not really want to let go of our problems; for what would we be without them?”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49, 'Problems and Escapes')
“Can the mind, which has created the problems, resolve those things that it has itself brought forth?”
(The First and Last Freedom: 'Can thought ever dissolve our problems?' - page 111)
“You perceive something only when your mind is silent, when there is no chattering of any kind.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The chattering mind' - October 13 2007)
GENERAL
"There are only facts, not greater and lesser facts."
(The Notebook: page 176)
"There is only one fact: impermanence."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: August 10th, 2008)
"We are not alone, and therefore we are secondhand human beings. When one is alone, totally alone, neither belonging to any family though one may have a family, nor belonging to any nation, to any culture, to any particular commitment, there is the sense of being an outsider -outsider to every form of thought, action, family, nation."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: December 5, 2007)
“Can we judge others, if we do not know the way of our own thinking, the way we act, the way we behave?”
(Krishnamurti to Himself: Ojai California, March 10, 1983)
“To seek truth is to deny it.”
(Book of Life: 'There is no guide to truth' - August 4, 2007)
“Sensitivity in its highest form is intelligence.”
(The Collected Works: Volume XV)
"Freedom is not from society but from idea; then relationship, society, does not condition the mind."
(The Notebook: page 203)
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
(Krishnamurti On Education: Talk to Teachers, Chapter 5, 'On Competition')
“Knowledge, the burden of the past, is corruption.”
(Commentaries On Living: Series II, Chapter 9, 'Effort')
“It is essential to realize that one must not be caught in explanations, it does not matter who gives them.”
(The Impossible Question, page 16)
"We are saying causation has in it inherently effect. It is not two separate things."
(Brockwood Park, 4th Public Talk, 2nd September, 1984)
“Action born of hatred can only create further hatred.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'Cessation of Anger', July 19, 2007)
“Simple anger, a sudden flare-up which is quickly forgotten, is one thing; but the anger that is deliberately built up, that has been brewed and that seeks to hurt and destroy, is quite another matter.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 30, 'Anger')
“Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion.”
(Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: Bulletin 57, 1989)
“To be open is to listen, not only to yourself, but to every influence, to every movement about you. It may or may not be possible to do something tangibly about what you hear, but the very fact of being open brings about its own action.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 56, 'Possessiveness')
“The major cause of violence, I think, is that each one of us is inwardly, psychologically, seeking security.”
(Book of Life: 'The major cause of violence' - June 27, 2007)
“The religious man is not concerned with society at all, because society is based on acquisitiveness, envy, greed, ambition, fear.”
(Collected Works: Volume 9, Madras, 2nd Public Talk, January 15, 1956)
“If you love, really love someone, there is no possibility of giving him pain when you do something that you think is right.”
(Book of Life: 'Where there is the possibility of pain there is no love' - July 21 2007)
“It is only when I am in communion with sorrow that I understand it.”
(Book of Life: 'Being in communion with sorrow' - July 31 2007)
“We have never said that to kill another human being is the greatest sin on earth."”
(Rajghat: 14th Talk to Boys and Girls, December, 1952)
“If we could understand one problem, go into it very deeply however small or big it is, then we would uncover all problems.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditation: 'Self-image leads to pain' - July 16, 2007)
“Truth does not belong to you or to me, it is totally impersonal and anonymous; if you say you have got truth, then you are not anonymous,
you are far more important than truth.”
(Collected Works: Volume 8, Banaras, India, 20th January 1954, 13th Talk to Students at Rajghat School)
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(Note: JKTI is the abbreviation for the Jiddu Krishnamurti Teachings International website, affiliated with the worldwide Krishnamurti Foundations.)
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(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'What is accumulated is not truth' - August 20, 2007}
“To listen completely you must be silent, and that silence is not something in thought, created by thought.”
(JKTI: August 10 2007, 'If you listen completely, there is no listener' - The Collected Works, Vol. XVI, page 58)
“… thought creates the thinker; and because thoughts are transient, the thinker becomes the permanent entity. There is first the process of thought, and then thought creates the thinker, obviously. The thinker then establishes himself as a permanent entity, apart from thoughts.”
(Collected Works: Volume 8, Bombay, 10th Public Talk, 14th March, 1948)
“Thought-feeling which is intensely aware is in the process of constant self-discovery - which discovery, being true, is liberating and creative.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'All thought is distraction' - September 2, 2007)
“Thinking is an impediment to experiencing; and there is no wisdom without experiencing. Knowledge, idea, belief, stand in the way of wisdom.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I)
“Any belief that I hold, projects itself as an experience; and then I say it is true because I have experienced it."
(Collected Works, Madras, 1947)
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| AWARENESS / ATTENTION / INSIGHT
"When you see something very clearly, then you do not choose.”
(JKTI: Collected Works: Vol. XVII, 'We are not basically free at all' - page 270)
"Insight is possible only with the cessation of thought and time."
(Jayakar, A Biography, "How Far Can One Travel?" - page 455)
“When you give complete attention there is no recording. It is only when there is inattention that you record.”
(Questions and Answers, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, Page 54)
“It is attention that allows silence to come upon the mind, which is the opening of the door to creation. That is why attention is of the highest importance.… The elimination of fear is the beginning of attention. 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."
(Life Ahead)
"Perhaps it is because we are so concerned with ourselves, with our own petty little problems, our own ideas, our own pleasures, pursuits and ambitions that we are not objectively aware."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations, December 1, 2007)
"A mind that is indifferent, is aware of the shoddiness of our civilization, the shoddiness of our thought, the ugly relationships; it is aware of the street, of the beauty of a tree, or of a lovely face, a smile; and it neither denies it nor accepts it, but merely observes - not intellectually, not coldly, but with that warm, affectionate indifference."
(Bombay, 6th Public Talk, 7th March 1962)
“… please listen carefully; and you will see that when there is a fact, a truth, there is understanding of it only when I can experience the whole thing without division - and not when there is the separation of the "me" observing suffering. That is the truth.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'Integrated Understanding' - July 11, 2007)
“Consciously or unconsciously we refuse to see the essentiality of being passively aware
because we do not really want to let go of our problems; for what would we be without them?”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49 'Problems and Escapes')
“Observe, and in that observation there is neither the `observer' nor the `observed' - there is only observation taking place.”
The `observer' exists only when you accumulate in the observation…”
(The Impossible Question: Part I, Chapter 5, 'Fear and Pleasure' - 5th Public Talk, Saanen 26th July, 1970 }
“We want to find a solution, a means, a method by which to resolve this burden of life, and so we never actually look at sorrow.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The End of Sorrow' - July 24, 2007)
“There is understanding only when there is no choice, no judgment, but merely observation.
To die each day means not to carry over from yesterday all your ambitions, grievances,
your memories of fulfilment, your grudges, your hatred.”
(Collected Works: Vol. XII : Paris, 7th Public Talk, September 19, 1961)
“If you and I could see the fact without offering an opinion, interpreting, giving a significance, then the fact becomes much more alive.
… the fact is there alone, nothing else matters; then the fact has its own energy which drives you in the right direction.”
{Book of Life: 'Translation of the facts prevents seeing', August 9, 2007)
“When you see something very clearly, then you do not choose.”
{JKTI: 'We are not basically free at all' - Collected Works: Vol. XVII, page 270}
“A mind that is attached is not objective, not clear, cannot think sanely and observe directly.”
{The Impossible Question: Part II, Chapter 3}
“When you give complete attention there is no recording. It is only when there is inattention that you record. That is: you flatter me; I like it; the liking at that moment is inattention therefore recording takes place. But if when you flatter me I listen to it completely without any reaction, then there is no center which records."
(Questions and Answers: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, page 54)
“You can know yourself only when you are unaware, when you are not calculating, not protecting, not constantly watching to guide, to transform, to subdue, to control; when you see yourself unexpectedly, that is, when the mind has no preconceptions with regard to itself, when the mind is open, unprepared to meet the unknown.”
(Book of Life: 'The unguarded intellect' - September 7, 2007)
| THE SELF / SELF-KNOWLEDGE (The Fabric of the Mind)
“Without problems, without achievements and failures, the self is not.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49, 'Problems and Escapes')
"Conflict is the very structure of the self."
(Commentaries on Living: First Series, Problems and Escapes, page 124)
“The psyche is memory.”
{Krishnamurti to Himself: Ojai, California}
“When the me is absent, totally, there is beauty.”
{The Transformation of Man: page 197}
“… meditation is the emptying of the mind of the activity of the self.”
{Collected Works: Saanen, 7th Public Talk, 29th July 1973}
“Problems will always exist where the activities of the self are dominant.”
{Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 41, 'Awareness'}
“We have separated the `me', who is the observer, from that which he is observing.”
{Talks in Bombay, 3rd Public Talk, 29th January 1983}
“Self-knowledge is not the product of will; self-knowledge comes into being through awareness
of the moment by moment responses to the movement of life.”
{Commentaries on Living: Series I}
“Most of us are so weighed down by the known, by the yesterday, by the memories, by the `me',
the `self', which is but a bundle of memories accumulated yesterday, having no actual existence in itself.”
{Talks in Europe, 1967}
“It is only when "the me" in all subtle forms comes to an end that there is a state of bliss which cannot be sought after,
an ecstasy, a real joy without pain, without corruption.”
{Book of Life Daily Meditations, 'Happiness that is not of the mind' - July 6, 2007}
“However deep, wide, and extensive it may become, the self is always limited, and until it is abandoned, the mind can never be free.”
(JKTI : The Collected Works: Vol. VIII , 'Until the self is abandoned, the mind can never be free' - page 312, August 5 2007)
“The self, in its very structure, is contradictory; it is made up of many entities with different masks, each in opposition to the other.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 43, 'Consistency')
"Normally we thrive on blaming others, which is a form of self-pity."
(Freedom From The Known: 'There is only you' - page 15)
TIME (Flaws in the Mind)
“We are questioning whether there is such a thing as psychological time at all.”
{The Transformation of Man: page 178}
“The mind can only be silent when it has understood the process of time and that requires watchfulness, does it not?”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The active still mind' - October 11, 2007}
“Time is sorrow.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The duality of thinker and thought' - August 15. 2007}
“Truth is not something to be experienced. Truth is not something you can seek out and find. It is beyond time. And thought, which is of time, cannot possibly search it out and grasp it.”
(The Impossible Question: page 75}
“We are always in conflict between what is and "what should be."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The disorder that time creates' - October 4, 2007)
“Without love, you cannot wipe out the past; with love, there is no past.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, 'Self-Esteem')
“It is the past, with its tradition and its authority, that has to be negated.”
(Freedom, Love and Action: Eight Conversations, Second conversation)
“Time, which is continuity, can never find that which is eternal; eternity is not continuity.… Eternity is in the now.”
(On Self-Knowledge: Varanasi [Banaras], 1949, pp. 116-18)
“As we were saying, there is no psychological evolution. The psyche can never become or grow into something which it is not.”
(Krishnamurti to Himself: Ojai, California, 17th March 1983)
“Patience is not time. Impatience is time. Patience has no time.”
(The Way of Intelligence: Chapter 2)
FEAR
"Fear may express itself in many forms - as it does - but there is only one fear."
{KFI: 'The Problem of Fear', New Delhi, Fourth Public Talk, November 1, 1964}
“Fear exists only in relationship to an idea, and idea is the response of memory as thought."
(Commentaries on Living: First Series, 'Loneliness' - page 105)
“The mind is the instrument of perception and, to perceive truly, the mind must be made straight, it must be cleansed of all conditioning, of all fear.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'Knowledge diverts the mind' - October 14. 2007)
“We have not solved the problem of fear. What we do is to escape from it through various forms.”
(Collected Works: Volume 6, 'The Origin of Conflict' - Madras, 4th Public Talk, January 13, 1952)
"... fear breeds sorrow, and sorrow is time as thought."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'To die without argument' - November 15, 2007}
"The relationship between what one is and what one desires to be causes fear."
(Commentaries on Living: First Series, 'Fear', page 148)
“Belief is the outcome of fear.”
(Inward Revolution: Madras, 13 January 1971)
“Fearlessness is not courage but freedom from accumulation.”
(Commentaries On Living: Series II, Chapter 9, 'Effort')
“We have separated living from dying, and the interval between the living and the dying is fear.”
(Freedom from the Known: 1969, pp. 75-77)
DEATH
"We do not want to know what death is; we do not want to know the extraordinary miracle, the beauty, the depth, the vastness of death. We don't want to inquire into that something which we don't know. All we want is to continue."
(Collected Works: Volume 8, Saanen, 7th Public Talk, July 21,1963)
“You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox.”
(Freedom from the Known: 1969, page 77)
"So one has to live every day dying - dying because you are then in contact with life."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'To die without argument' - November 15 2007)
“It is one fact in life, we are all going to die. That is an absolute, irrevocable fact. And the future is now, death is now.”
(Questions & Answers 2: England, 1984, 'Why do we pray?')
“But do you know death? That is, can you while living put an end to this everlasting struggle to find in the impermanent something that will continue?”
(Collected Works, Ojai, 6th Public Talk , July 21, 1955)
THE INDIVIDUAL
“There is hope in the individual, in you, not in a system, not in the blueprint of a planned society,
not in any religious organization, but in you, the individual.”
(JKTI: 'Not in the blueprint of a planned society' - The Collected Works: Vol. IV, page 92)
“It is always the individual, never the group or the collective,
that brings about a radical change in the world, and this again is historically so.”
(JKTI: 'Transformation of the individual' - Collected Works: Vol. IX, page 226)
“The fullest development of every individual creates a society of equals.”
(Life Ahead, Introduction)
“Anything really true must be totally individual - not in the sense of self-centeredness, which is very limiting and which in itself is evil,
but individual in the sense that each one of us must experience for himself, uninfluenced, something which is not the outcome of any self-centred interest or drive.”
(JKTI: 'Anything really true must be totally individual' - The Collected Works: Vol. X, page 79)
“What the individual is, the society is. What you are matters infinitely. That is not a mere slogan but, if you go into it really deeply, you will discover how significant your actions are, how what you are affects the world in which you live - which is the world of your relationships, however small, however limited. And, if we can fundamentally alter, bring about a radical revolution in ourselves, inwardly, then there is a possibility of creating a different world, a different set of values.”
(JKTI : 'What you are matters infinitely' - The Collected Works: Vol. VI, page 362)
"Each one of us is the storehouse of all the past. The individual is the human who is all mankind. The whole history of man is written in ourselves."
(JKTI: 'The whole history of man is written in ourselves' - Freedom from the Known: page 13)
“The mass is only an invention of the capitalists and others; it does not exist.”
{Collected Works, Volume 4: Madras, 2nd Group Discussion, April 13, 1948}
THE MIND (MindandBrain)
“If we apply our mind we can solve anything…”
{Brockwood Park, 4th Public Talk, 7th September 1980)
"To be occupied with something is the nature of the mind, and its activity springs from this."
(Commentaries on Living: First Series, page 168)
“The mind would be lost without the worry of problems; it feeds on problems, whether they are world or kitchen problems,
political or personal, religious or ideological; so our problems make us petty and narrow.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49, 'Problems and Escapes')
“Consciously or unconsciously we refuse to see the essentiality of being passively aware
because we do not really want to let go of our problems; for what would we be without them?”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49, 'Problems and Escapes')
“Can the mind, which has created the problems, resolve those things that it has itself brought forth?”
(The First and Last Freedom: 'Can thought ever dissolve our problems?' - page 111)
“You perceive something only when your mind is silent, when there is no chattering of any kind.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'The chattering mind' - October 13 2007)
GENERAL
"There are only facts, not greater and lesser facts."
(The Notebook: page 176)
"There is only one fact: impermanence."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: August 10th, 2008)
"We are not alone, and therefore we are secondhand human beings. When one is alone, totally alone, neither belonging to any family though one may have a family, nor belonging to any nation, to any culture, to any particular commitment, there is the sense of being an outsider -outsider to every form of thought, action, family, nation."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: December 5, 2007)
“Can we judge others, if we do not know the way of our own thinking, the way we act, the way we behave?”
(Krishnamurti to Himself: Ojai California, March 10, 1983)
“To seek truth is to deny it.”
(Book of Life: 'There is no guide to truth' - August 4, 2007)
“Sensitivity in its highest form is intelligence.”
(The Collected Works: Volume XV)
"Freedom is not from society but from idea; then relationship, society, does not condition the mind."
(The Notebook: page 203)
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
(Krishnamurti On Education: Talk to Teachers, Chapter 5, 'On Competition')
“Knowledge, the burden of the past, is corruption.”
(Commentaries On Living: Series II, Chapter 9, 'Effort')
“It is essential to realize that one must not be caught in explanations, it does not matter who gives them.”
(The Impossible Question, page 16)
"We are saying causation has in it inherently effect. It is not two separate things."
(Brockwood Park, 4th Public Talk, 2nd September, 1984)
“Action born of hatred can only create further hatred.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'Cessation of Anger', July 19, 2007)
“Simple anger, a sudden flare-up which is quickly forgotten, is one thing; but the anger that is deliberately built up, that has been brewed and that seeks to hurt and destroy, is quite another matter.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 30, 'Anger')
“Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion.”
(Krishnamurti Foundation Trust: Bulletin 57, 1989)
“To be open is to listen, not only to yourself, but to every influence, to every movement about you. It may or may not be possible to do something tangibly about what you hear, but the very fact of being open brings about its own action.”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 56, 'Possessiveness')
“The major cause of violence, I think, is that each one of us is inwardly, psychologically, seeking security.”
(Book of Life: 'The major cause of violence' - June 27, 2007)
“The religious man is not concerned with society at all, because society is based on acquisitiveness, envy, greed, ambition, fear.”
(Collected Works: Volume 9, Madras, 2nd Public Talk, January 15, 1956)
“If you love, really love someone, there is no possibility of giving him pain when you do something that you think is right.”
(Book of Life: 'Where there is the possibility of pain there is no love' - July 21 2007)
“It is only when I am in communion with sorrow that I understand it.”
(Book of Life: 'Being in communion with sorrow' - July 31 2007)
“We have never said that to kill another human being is the greatest sin on earth."”
(Rajghat: 14th Talk to Boys and Girls, December, 1952)
“If we could understand one problem, go into it very deeply however small or big it is, then we would uncover all problems.”
(Book of Life Daily Meditation: 'Self-image leads to pain' - July 16, 2007)
“Truth does not belong to you or to me, it is totally impersonal and anonymous; if you say you have got truth, then you are not anonymous,
you are far more important than truth.”
(Collected Works: Volume 8, Banaras, India, 20th January 1954, 13th Talk to Students at Rajghat School)
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"… Life demands that I look at it afresh."
(JKTI: 'Knowledge, however wide…' - Hamburg, Talk 4, 1956)
(JKTI: 'Knowledge, however wide…' - Hamburg, Talk 4, 1956)
“Consciously or unconsciously we refuse to see the essentiality of being passively aware
because we do not really want to let go of our problems; for what would we be without them?”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49, 'Problems and Escapes')
because we do not really want to let go of our problems; for what would we be without them?”
(Commentaries on Living: Series I, Chapter 49, 'Problems and Escapes')
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"So one begins to understand from moment to moment this constant growth of the 'me,' with its
self-importance, its self-projected activities - which is basically, fundamentally, the cause of fear."
('The self is still the self at any level you may place it,' The Collected Works: Vol. VII - page 326)
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"A problem comes into being only when there is a search for result.
When the search for result ceases, then only is there no problem.”
(Book of life Daily Meditations: 'Passive awareness' - June 20, 2008)
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"Understanding myself is not a matter of time; I can understand myself at this very moment."
(The First and Last Freedom: Chapter 1)
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| THOUGHT (What's all this talk about thought?)
"What is the nature of thought that it ceases when there is complete attention and when there is no attention it arises?"
(The Transformation of Man: The Wholeness of Life, Chapter XIX, page 215)
"Total attention of one thought unfolds the whole nature of thought."
(Jayakar Biography: Chapter 41, 'Learn to Die to Yourself Completely' - page 436)
"All our thinking is based on time."
(Book of Life Daily Meditations: 'A Vain Pursuit' - October 7, 2008)
“What basis have I for thinking if I do not know myself?”
(JKTI: Collected Works: Vol.VI, 'Revolution must begin with you and me' - page 38)
" ... thinking is always a reaction either of the conscious or of the unconscious."
(Collected Works: Vol. VI, ' Thinking is a process of time' - page 260)
“Thought is the root of pleasure.”
(The Transformation of Man: The Wholeness of Life, Part 11, page 169)
"There is no such thing as freedom of thought. It is sheer nonsense."
(Freedom from the Known: page 36)
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" ... thinking is always a reaction either of the conscious or of the unconscious."
(Collected Works: Vol. VI, ' Thinking is a process of time' - page 260)
(Collected Works: Vol. VI, ' Thinking is a process of time' - page 260)
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"Is not your every action a self-centered activity?"
(The Awakening of Intelligence: Talk & Dialogue, New York City, April 24, 1971)
"All self-centered activity is based on pleasure."
(Collected Works: Vol. XV, page 236)
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(The Awakening of Intelligence: Talk & Dialogue, New York City, April 24, 1971)
"All self-centered activity is based on pleasure."
(Collected Works: Vol. XV, page 236)
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Essay: 'Too Radical for the World's Good'