U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.
The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.
Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.
You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.
Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
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.
Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.
If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.
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.
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.