U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

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• 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…
• 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 to…
• If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and…
• 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…
• 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…
• My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do…
• It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.
• You cannot experience the death of anybody
• Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
• You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias…
• 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…
• The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.
• There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.
• 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…
• You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point and realize that no dialogue is possible, that no…
• The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer,…
• There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
• Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
• We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But,…
• There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.

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