Tag:  Sorrow

• Sorrow is the result of a shock, it is the temporary shaking up of a mind that has settled down, that has accepted the routine of life. September 09, 2009

  Sorrow is the result of a shock, it is the temporary shaking up of a mind that has settled down, that has accepted the routine of life. Something happens - a death, the loss of a job, the question...

• Sorrow is the result of a shock, it is the temporary shaking up of a mind that has settled down, that has accepted the routine of life. April 13, 2010

  Sorrow is the result of a shock, it is the temporary shaking up of a mind that has settled down, that has accepted the routine of life. Something happens - a death, the loss of a job, the questioni...

• A man in sorrow cannot find reality. July 15, 2010

  A man in sorrow cannot find reality. He must be free from sorrow to find it. That which is the unknown cannot be thought about. What you think about is already the known. You can think only of the ...

• We see that our living, our action is always within the field of destruction, within the field of sorrow; like a wave, confusion and chaos always overtake us. September 14, 2010

  We see that our living, our action is always within the field of destruction, within the field of sorrow; like a wave, confusion and chaos always overtake us. There is no interval in the confusion ...

• Sorrow is but an indication of conditioned thought, of mind limited by beliefs, fears, illusions, but you do not heed the incessant warning. November 08, 2012

  Sorrow is but an indication of conditioned thought, of mind limited by beliefs, fears, illusions, but you do not heed the incessant warning. To forget sorrow, to overcome it, to modify it, you seek...

• There is only one fundamental problem, which expresses itself in many different ways. February 01, 2013

  Each one of us has a peculiar and particular problem of his own. Some are concerned with death and the fear of death and what is to happen in the hereafter; some are so lonely in their occupations ...

• Is not liberation from the cause of conflict and sorrow the primary issue? September 05, 2013

  Questioner: You decry war and yet are you not supporting it? Krishnamurti: Are we not all of us maintaining this terrible mass murder? We are responsible, each one, for war; war is an end result...

• The end to conflict and sorrow is through understanding and transcending the ways of the self and in discovering that imperishable Reality which is not the creation of the mind. November 18, 2013

  Is there an enduring state of creative tranquillity? Is there an end to the seemingly endless struggle of the opposites? Is there an imperishable ecstasy? The end to conflict and sorrow is throu...

• After trying one set of relationships, one set of things, we move to another, from one page to another, hoping to find happiness and we never find it. May 08, 2014

  One system of ideas can be broken down by another system of ideas and so on. Yet we do not seem to realize the impermanency of all things - using the word not in its metaphysical but in its purely ...

• We have never asked ourselves whether happiness can be found through something, through knowledge, through contact or through God. May 09, 2014

  We have never asked ourselves whether happiness can be found through something, through knowledge, through contact or through God. Can happiness be achieved through an object, either an ideological...

• Intelligence is the understanding of sorrow. May 09, 2015

  Each Sunday I have been trying to take up a different subject and approach the problem of existence from a different point of view. I am going to try this evening to approach it from the point of v...

• Interest comes into being, obviously, when you are suffering, when you want to know what are the causes of suffering because you are caught in it, or because you see another caught in it. August 14, 2015

  Question: Since the motive power in the search for truth is interest, what creates interest? What creates interest in a relevant question? Is it suffering? Krishnamurti: Obviously, where there i...