Action Without Conflict | J. Krishnamurti
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
Man lives by time. Inventing the future has been his favorite game of escape. We think that changes in ourselves can come about in time, that order in ourselves can be built up little by little, added to day by day. But time doesn’t bring order or peace, so we must stop thinking in terms of gradualness. This means that there is no tomorrow for us t... See more
Man has built in himself images as a sense of security – religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these dominates man’s thinking, relationships and daily life. These are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man in every relationship.
Mary Lutyens • The Life and Death of Krishnamurti
So for most of us, life is a process of isolation, of denial, resistance, conformity to a pattern; and naturally in that process there is no life, and therefore there is a sense of emptiness, a sense of frustration.