Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo. — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and various other… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share
The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share
It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path. — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
