Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
What we call happiness or ecstasy is, to me, creative thinking. And creative thinking is the infinite movement of thought, emotion, and action. That is, when thought, which is emotion, which is action itself, is unimpeded in its movement, is not compelled or influenced or bound by an idea, and does not proceed from the background of tradition or ha... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
The mind, which is really intelligent, is free of self-discipline, for intelligence is born out of the questioning of environment and the discovery of the true significance of environment.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Please, I do not want to give you examples and similes, because I want you to think it out, and if I give examples I do all the thinking and you merely listen, whereas if you begin to think about what I am saying, you will see, you will observe for yourself how mind, being accustomed to so many substitutions, authorities, escapes, never comes to th... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Most parents, unfortunately, think they are responsible for their children and their sense of responsibility takes the form of telling them what they should do and what they should not do, what they should become and what they should not become. The parents want their children to have a secure position in society. What they call responsibility is p
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The organization becomes a framework into which its members can conveniently fit. They no longer strive after Truth or the mountaintop, but rather carve for themselves a convenient niche in which they put themselves, or let the organization place them, and consider that the organization will thereby lead them to Truth.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
We are never directly in relationship with our problems, but always through some belief or formulation. We can solve our problems only when we are directly in relationship with them.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
We are talking about inward mediocrity, psychological conflicts, problems and travail. There can be great scientists who yet inwardly lead a mediocre life. So what is going to be your life? In
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
The understanding of the actual is possible only when the ideal, the what should be, is erased from the mind; that is, only when the false is seen as the false.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
You know we have lost all sense of living normally, simply, directly. To get back to that normality, that simplicity, that directness, you cannot follow methods, you cannot merely become automatic machines; and I am afraid most of us are seeking methods because we think that through them we shall realize fullness, stability, and permanency. To me m... See more