The Life and Death of Krishnamurti

This journal, under the title Krishnamurti’s Notebook, was published by Gollancz and Harper & Row in 1976.

The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

Thought cannot formulate it. But there’s a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable.’

the bringing about of a radical transformation in the human mind. Without such a transformation there could be no real change in society, no real joy, no peace in the world.

that imminent feeling of sacredness, began to take place.

It’s really a question of life itself. Either you live in the past, or you live totally differently: that is the whole point.

‘The world is me and I am the world; my consciousness is the consciousness of the world, and the consciousness of the world is me. So when there is order in the human being there is order in the world.’

thought is always trying to find a place where it can abide, abide in the sense of hold. What thought creates, being fragmentary, is total insecurity. Therefore there is complete security in being absolutely nothing – which means not a thing created by thought.

It was as though one was looking, not with eyes only but with thousand centuries;