“We must begin with ourselves before we can understand what the end purpose of life is, and what all this means—the wars, the national antagonisms, the conflicts, and all this mess. It seems very easy, but it is actually extraordinarily difficult. To study ourselves, to see how our thoughts operate, we must be unusually observant. […]
“Only choiceless awareness can lead to non-duality, to the reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love. If you love, you can do what you will. But if you begin by doing what you want, or doing what you do not want in obedience to some traditional system or ideas, ideals and […]
“The understanding of what you are, whatever it be―ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous―the understanding of what you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is essential, for it gives freedom. It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live―not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, […]
“Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Regeneration is only possible in the present – not in the future, not tomorrow. A man who relies on time as a means through which he can gain happiness, or realise truth or God, is merely deceiving himself; he is living in ignorance and therefore in conflict.” –Paraphrased from the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Only when the mind is calm and relaxed, not looking for answers or solutions, neither running away nor resisting, can there be rebirth; because then the mind can see the truth, and truth — not effort — brings freedom.”∗ Jiddu Krishnamurthi There are times when it’s appropriate to look for solutions using our mind and […]
**Fear comes into being when I want to fit into a certain pattern.To live without fear means to live outside patterns.The desire to live in a certain way is a source of fear. The difficulties I experience arise from my desire to live within fixed frameworks.** Paraphrased from Jiddu Krishnamurti
From Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom “For most of us, life is based on effort, on various expressions of will. We cannot imagine action without the exercise of will, without effort. Our life is grounded in them. Our social, economic, and so-called spiritual life consists of a series of efforts that always aim […]
