Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
have done may not have been totally correct, to live with the fact and not interpret the fact according to your pleasure or form of reaction, that is not frightening. Life isn’t very simple. One can live simply but life itself is vast, complex. It extends from horizon to horizon. You can live with few clothes or with one meal a day, but that is not
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“To what extent can a person control his own actions?” A person does not control his own actions if he has not understood environment. Then he is only acting under the compulsion, the influence, of environment; such an action is not action at all, but is merely reaction or self-protectiveness. But when a person begins to understand environment, see... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
So what is it you are going to be? The usual mediocre person? Get a job, settle down with all the problems around you and in you—is that your future? Of
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Freedom is a state of mind—not freedom from something but a sense of freedom, a freedom to doubt and question everything and, therefore, so intense, active, and vigorous that it throws away every form of dependence, slavery, conformity, and acceptance. Such freedom implies being completely alone. But can the mind brought up in a culture so dependen
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And they are all very educated people who read books but disregard the whole field of life. And uneducated people do the same.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
As I asked, to be a mediocre person? Mediocrity means to go half way up the hill, half way in anything, never going to the very top of the mountain or demanding all your energy, your capacity, never demanding excellence.
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Suffering is merely that high, intense clarity of thought and emotion which forces you to recognize things as they are. But
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
To have this profound revolution, you must become fully conscious of the structure which you have created about yourself and in which you are now caught. That is, we have now certain values, ideals, beliefs, which act as a net to hold the mind, and by questioning and understanding all their significance, we shall realize how they have come into exi... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or ... See more