U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes
Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
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.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
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'.
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.
If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
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.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.
If you come across fear, stare it in its eyes. Face it and you will notice that fear fades away.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."
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 maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
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.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
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.
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
