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There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Giving
Romance
Faces
There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Men
Problem
God
What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there. So that's the reason why you keep asking the question: you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Years
Long
Guarantees
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Unique
Creating
Mold
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Long
Unhappy
Guarantees
The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Reality
Energy
Different
Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and various other means to protect it. You give charity to prevent the have-nots from rebelling against you. It also makes you feel less guilty. All do-gooders feel 'high' when they do good.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Mean
Law
Giving
I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Spiritual
Goal
Enlightenment
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Prayer
Self
Opposites
*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Path
Rejects
Ifs
This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Self
Pulse
Lightning
You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Thinking
Acting
Energy
Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Believe
Cost
Results
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Self
Deception
Needs
You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
GivingUp
Way
Facts
The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Facts
Problem
Feels
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
May
Rational
Mines
My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That’s all that I can say. ‘If I fall....’ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Fall
People
Crutches
If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Powerful
Thinking
Helping
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Light
Two
Creating
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