Krishnamurti
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Authentic daily quotes by J. Krishnamurti, selected by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. Quote sources available on request: [email protected] © KFA/KFT
Our cultural and psychological responses are from the past, but modified by the conjunction of the past with the present. So the past is controlling and modifying the present.
Experience is only to the man who is asleep. He is awakened by that experience, and he then says that he has had experience. If he is awake, he is always active, and therefore he has no experience.
Craving is the cause of suffering. Without understanding this, your attempt merely to get rid of suffering is bound to be futile.
Suffering is a state of disturbance. Either you try to avoid it through a system or escape, or you understand its true significance.
An experience leaves a residue, which is what you have learned from that experience. This is memory. When there is a similar challenge again, the response is by the already existing residue.
In life, there are three important inescapable principles: love, pleasure and pain – of which pleasure and pain are sensory.
When you fall in love, there is self-forgetfulness or complete giving over of yourself to another. There is also a continuity of the self, which seeks sensuous pleasure in the past or in the future.
You don’t know God, you know only the ‘me’. You have to therefore start from the ‘me’.
When you are intelligent, you are fully awake and, in that state, meet problems instantaneously.
Morality implies duality – right and wrong, good and bad, etc. Following this approach, you will be lost.
You can see the truth only when you are able to see the false as false.
Most of your life is merely a routine that you are ever in search of relief from.
As long as the mind is after the achievement of a result, there is bound to be greed.
When you set all ideals aside and face ‘what is’, you will find a beautiful and indescribable love that is not yours or mine but a thing that is self-created and which is its own eternity.
Be nothing. Life then becomes extraordinarily simple and beautiful.
Behind all your knowledge, your degrees, titles and possessions, there is nothing.