01c. 1940 ADThe question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
02c. 1940 ADWhat is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
03c. 1940 ADA man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
04c. 1940 ADTruth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
05c. 1940 ADWe are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
06c. 1940 ADWhen the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
07c. 1940 ADHave you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
08c. 1940 ADAll of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
09c. 1940 ADNo one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
10c. 1940 ADLife cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
11c. 1940 ADLife is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
12c. 1940 ADFor most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
13c. 1940 ADTo live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
14c. 1940 ADFreedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.Jiddu Krishnamurti / quote ↗
