Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
“When there is a total understanding of need, the outward and the inner, then desire is not a torture. Then it has a quite different meaning, a significance far beyond the content of thought and it goes beyond feeling, with its emotions, myths and illusions. With the total understanding of need, not the mere quantity or the quality of it, desire th... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
don’t think that if you cease to protect yourself you will be lost. On the contrary, you will be lost if you are protecting yourself due to the insufficiency, due to the shallowness of thought and affection. But if you merely cease to protect yourself because you think through that you are going to find truth, again it will be but another form of p... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Most of us are accustomed to being spectators and not to partake in the game. We read books but we never write books. It has become our tradition, our national and universal habit, to be the spectators, to look on at a football game, to watch the public politicians and orators.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
We are never directly in relationship with our problems, but always through some belief or formulation. We can solve our problems only when we are directly in relationship with them.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Each one has contributed individually, until it has become collective, and the individual who has helped to create the collective now is lost in the collective, for it has become his mold, his environment.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
There can be no creative thinking if mind is hindered by the search for a reward, by the pursuit of a goal.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
So let us put that aside for a moment; but inside, what is your life? Inwardly, what is the future? Are you going to be like the rest of the world, always hunting pleasure, always troubled with a dozen psychological problems?”
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
But to live with something like jealousy, envy, or anxiety you must never get used to it, never accept it. You must care for it as you would care for a newly planted tree, protect it against the sun, against the storm. You must care for it, not condemn it or justify it. Therefore, you begin to love it. When you care for it, you are beginning to lov
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The ideal, the what should be, does not help in understanding what is; on the contrary, it prevents understanding.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
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. We see that our living, our action, is always within the field of destruction, within the field of sorrow; like a wav... See more