When What You Have Gets Taken Away
“To be frustrated is to be psychologically prevented from gaining or achieving that upon which our mind and heart are set. We want something. . . and when we are thwarted, we feel frustrated, a feeling of being nothing, a miserable failure.” — J. Krishnamurti
Don’t Resist The Moment
“Was Krishna cunning? No. . . . He tried his best to prevent the war. . . But, when once in the thing, you should not recede – that is the man of duty. Do not run away, it is cowardice. . . You should not budge an inch – of course not for a wrong thing; this war was a righteous war.” — Swami Vivekananda
We Often Get This Wrong About Civilization
“If we deeply experienced and understood that the self is ever impermanent, then there would be no identification with any particular form of craving, with any particular country, or with any organized system of thought or religion, for with identification comes the horror of war, the ruthlessness of so-called civilization.” — J. Krishnamurti Ralph Waldo […]
Why Our Leaders Are Confused
“’Our leaders are unable to give us a lead as they themselves are confused.’ The leader is created by the follower, by you, and since you yourself are confused, you can only create a confused leader.” — J. Krishnamurti
Nature Has to Relent
“The smaller and more selfish I make myself, the more my fear. If a man thinks he is a little nothing, fear will surely come upon him. And the less you think of yourself an insignificant person, the less fear there will be for you.” — Swami Vivekananda
The Difference Between Contact And Connection
As soon as we say “I”, we are humbugged all the time; and we call it “knowable,” but it’s only going round and round like a bullock tied to a tree. . . Conquer yourself and the whole universe is yours.” — Swami Vivekananda
Treat Every Experience Like This
“If you have lived an experience fully, completely, have you not found that it leaves no traces behind? It is only the incomplete experiences that leave their mark. . . Only when an experience is completed is there renewal.” — J. Krishnamurti
What You Find Depends Upon You
“The approach matters more than the problem itself; upon the seeker depends what he finds. . .” — J. Krishnamurti
Don’t Mind What Happens
“Self-awareness is the choiceless awareness of the actual process of your whole being.” — J. Krishnamurti
The Mind Must Be Checked
“As a drawer is useful only when empty, so the mind must be free of all its accumulations, for only then can there be openness to the wisdom and the ecstasy of the real.”
— J. Krishnamurti