Tag:  Happiness

• Only in total freedom does bliss exist. October 06, 2009

  Happiness and pleasure you can buy in any market at a price. But bliss you cannot buy for yourself or for another. Happiness and pleasure are time-binding. Only in total freedom does bliss exist. P...

• Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. December 18, 2009

  So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge...

• If relationship is based on mere usage, is there any relationship, except the most superficial, between the user and the used? January 07, 2010

  We find a certain happiness in the self-forgetfulness of sex, and so we use it as a means to achieve what we desire. Happiness through something must invariably beget conflict, for then the means i...

• To the majority of people, except perhaps here and there to one rare, happy person, mind is merely a machine, a storehouse of memory which is continually giving values to the things it meets, to experiences. September 30, 2011

  [This] memory, which you call mind, is giving and imparting values, isn't it? That is the whole function of memory, which you call mind. That is, mind, instead of being itself intelligence which is...

• Personal happiness does not exist. December 12, 2011

  Question: Do you advocate renunciation and self-abnegation as a means of finding personal happiness? Krishnamurti: Personal happiness does not exist. So there are no means to it. There is only t...