What Are You Doing With Your Life?
That happiness cannot be made permanent, in the sense in which we use that word. But, our mind is seeking permanent happiness, something that will last, that will continue. That very desire for continuity is corruption.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Happiness is the absence of me
We are trying to find out what is happiness and whether happiness is something of which you are conscious. The moment you are conscious that you are happy, that you have much, is that happiness? The moment you are conscious that you are happy, it is not happiness, is it? So you cannot go after happiness. The moment you are conscious that you are
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Happiness comes in drips and drabs. Make the most of the feeling when it arrives. Permanent happiness is difficult. We can never be happy every second of the day.
There is a search for something permanent, is there not, in most of us?—something we can cling to, something which will give us assurance, a hope, a lasting enthusiasm, a lasting certainty, because in ourselves we are so uncertain. We do not know ourselves. We know a lot about facts, what the books have said; but we do not know for ourselves, we do
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No book or resource will teach us more than experience. You can't live on theory. You have to experience the thing you want first. You will find the thing that you attach yourself. A lens. Something to help you see life through. Everyone can do with this thing. What is it for you?
Many adults are immature and rather childish, and this is a contributing cause of the confusion and misery in the world. It is the older people who are responsible for the prevailing economic and moral crisis; and one of our unfortunate weaknesses is that we want someone else to act for us and change the course of our lives.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Is this why some adults are immature and childish? Respinsbility always falls on someone else to change life for them. E.g. Chavs
So, self-knowledge can come only through relationship, not through isolation. Relationship is action, and self-knowledge is the result of awareness in action.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Relationships is where we learn and the awareness of taking action is where awareness is
Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in withdrawal, but in relationship—in relationship to society, to your wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, what your
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This is a new view for me and one that makes sense. The way i am at home is my true self. If i am constantly irritated then thats an indication of my state of mind. Its easy to put on an act at work, in social circles but never at home, relationships help you see your true self. This is a massive realisation for me and one I've been ignoring for years.
We know all this. We also know those extraordinary moments when the self is not there, in which there is no sense of endeavor, of effort, and which happens when there is love.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Wow - self is not there when we love? interesting view. Is this what it feels like when you have butterflies?
It is only the free mind that can meet life, not the mind that is tethered to any system, to any belief, to any particular knowledge.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
It is the free mind that we want to be aware of to help us get through life
Our minds are conditioned, held, tethered to dogma, to belief, to experience, to knowledge. With this tethered mind, with this mind that is so conditioned, so heavily held, we meet life, which is in constant movement. Life, with its many complex and swiftly changing problems, is never still, and it requires a fresh approach every day, every minute.
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Interesting view. The world moves. Life moves but the mind is static. Thats why we find it difficult to keep up unless we understand how the mind works.