What Are You Doing With Your Life?
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.
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.
Someone else’s truth sounds like only opinion until you try it out for yourself. You must look through the microscope yourself, or you will be left with the dust of words, not the actual perception of life.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
We cant take everything on as truth. You have to try and work things through yourself. The internet does a god job at speaking to your desires. Ive learned almost 99% of following advice is short term gratkfication. An enrollment onto the next problem. Long term its damanging because you only solve the problem that disguises the deeped rooted problems. These unique insights need to be prioritised. There are no shortcuts. Only illusions of shortcuts
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
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
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?
The conflict-ridden violent world cannot be transformed into a life of goodness, love, and compassion by any political, social, or economic strategies. It can be transformed only through mutation in individuals brought about through their own observation without any guru or organized religion.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
What it means to live a meaningful life.
Attention to the ways of the self, understanding that fear, desire, and anger are natural but that you don’t have to act them out or have everything you want—this insight dissolves mental anguish without adding to it.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Protecting our attention not just externally but internally
If you merely escape mental pain and confusion with drugs, entertainment, sex, busy-ness, the painful problem is still there, compounded with exhaustion and addiction.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
This was my teens and 20s