Tag:  Self Reliance

• A man who says, "I am free of tradition", has probably another mould of his own to which he is a slave. September 27, 2011

  To me life cannot be divided [that] way at all. You can't think you are going to change your soul and yet be a nationalist; you can't be class conscious and yet talk about brotherhood, or create ta...

• Economically, man certainly cannot be individualistic, which he has been through these many centuries, causing chaos, exploitation and misery. February 22, 2012

  Question: Do you believe that a man of low culture, oppressed, earning a miserable wage, with a wife and children to support, can save himself spiritually and economically without help and guidance...

• Question: How can you talk about human suffering when you yourself have never experienced it? March 09, 2012

  Question: How can you talk about human suffering when you yourself have never experienced it? Krishnamurti: We want to judge others. Instead of basing your understanding of what I say on whether...

• Don't you know, cannot you perceive for yourself that you are your own master, that you create your own ignorance, your own sorrow, that no other can by any means free you from suffering, now or ever? July 26, 2012

  Question: Are you, or are you not, a member of the Great White Lodge of Adepts and Initiates? Krishnamurti: Sir, what does it matter? I am afraid this country, and especially this Coast, is inun...

• When we rely psychologically on another, on a group, or on a leader for our understanding, for our hope, what takes place in us? March 24, 2013

  We think that self-expression is a form of creativeness; we have intense longing to express ourselves, and so self-expression has assumed a great importance. I am trying to explain some of the prob...

• One might ask what are you doing, are you not a sign post? June 25, 2013

  ... One might ask what are you doing, are you not a sign post? If I am and you gather round it to put flowers, to build a shrine and all the stupidities that go with it, then it is utterly foolish ...

• You are the cause of your sorrow and you alone can understand and transcend it, none can give you deliverance from ignorance save yourself. November 12, 2013

  Questioner: As you are so much against authority are there any unmistakable signs by which the liberation of another can be objectively recognized, apart from the personal affirmation of the indivi...

• Question: You have attained illumination, but what about us, the millions? March 27, 2014

  Question: You have attained illumination, but what about us, the millions? Krishnamurti: So, what about you? You and I are the millions, but are we aware of it? The moment we are in despair, we ...

• We are so unaccustomed to discover for ourselves the process of our own thinking from which alone action takes place. May 06, 2014

  It would be very interesting if we could take the journey together into self-exploration but unfortunately the difficulty with most of us is that we are used to watching rather than partaking; we w...

• Question: I have been told that you do not read any philosophical or religious literature. I can hardly believe this as when I listen to you I realize that you must have read or have some secret source of knowledge. Please be frank. May 14, 2014

  Question: I have been told that you do not read any philosophical or religious literature. I can hardly believe this as when I listen to you I realize that you must have read or have some secret so...