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
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
capacity to observe, your own activities, your own thoughts, your own way of life. When you ask ‘how’ you really become a secondhand human being; you lose integrity and also the innate honesty to look at yourself, to be what you are and to go beyond and above what you are. Never, never ask the question ‘how.’ We are talking psychologically, of cour
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Most of our energy is the product of conflict—I am this, I should be that—or of fright and the aggressive desire to continue in a given direction.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Relationship is life; to be is to be related. Only in the mirror of relationship is the mind to be understood, and you have to begin to see yourself in that mirror.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Intelligence is the capacity to deal with life as a whole;
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
We are talking about inward mediocrity, psychological conflicts, problems and travail. There can be great scientists who yet inwardly lead a mediocre life. So what is going to be your life? In
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
There is the family, the neighbor and the state, and by questioning their significance you will see that intelligence is spontaneous, not to be acquired, not to be cultivated. You have sown the seed of awareness and that produces the flower of intelligence.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Or are you going to be a totally different human being, who is aware and knows he has to meet adversity and opposition and that, therefore, there is no easy way of satisfaction? Because most of us want a life of ease, of comfort, without trouble, which is almost impossible. And if you do meet opposition, will you run away from it? If you don’t like
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