Tag:  Identification

• The other day someone said that he was a "Krishnamurti-ite", whereas so-and-so belonged to another group. August 18, 2009

  The other day someone said that he was a "Krishnamurti-ite", whereas so-and-so belonged to another group. As he was saying it, he was utterly unconscious of the implications of this identification....

• In talking to groups of listeners all over the world, I find that more and more people seem not to understand what I am saying, because they come with fixed ideas; November 10, 2009

  In talking to groups of listeners all over the world, I find that more and more people seem not to understand what I am saying, because they come with fixed ideas; they listen with their biased att...

• Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. November 24, 2009

  Truth is truth, one, alone; it has no sides, no paths; all paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are sim...

• Can the mind move from the known - not into the unknown, I don't know what that means - but be free and move away from the borders of the known? December 05, 2009

  Krishnamurti: What is habit? Questioner: Not being aware. Krishnamurti: No. What is habit. - not how is it formed. Questioner: Repetition of a movement. Krishnamurti: Right. Why is ther...

• We are always trying to identify ourselves with our race, with our culture, with those things which we believe in, with some mystical figure, or some saviour, some kind of super authority. January 08, 2010

  The other day as one was walking along a secluded wooded lane far from the noise and the brutality and the vulgarity of civilization, right away from everything that was put together by man, there ...

• One takes comfort, security, in any form of illusion. And man apparently needs many illusions. January 09, 2010

  One wonders why this craving, longing, for identification exists. One can understand the identification with one's physical needs - the necessary things, clothes, food, shelter and so on. But inwar...

• To worship another is to worship oneself; the image, the symbol, is a projection of oneself. January 17, 2010

  The worshipper is the worshipped. To worship another is to worship oneself; the image, the symbol, is a projection of oneself. After all, your idol, your book, your prayer, is the reflection of you...

• Where there is no anonymity there is violence, in all its different forms. February 23, 2010

  On every table there were daffodils, young, fresh, just out of the garden, with the bloom of spring on them still. On a side table there were lilies, creamy-white with sharp yellow centres. To see ...

• The other day as one was walking along a secluded wooded lane far from the noise and the brutality and the vulgarity of civilization, right away from everything that was put together by man, there was a sense of great quietness, enveloping all things - serene, distant and full of the sound of the earth. April 30, 2010

  The other day as one was walking along a secluded wooded lane far from the noise and the brutality and the vulgarity of civilization, right away from everything that was put together by man, there ...

• You want to discover if patriotism is a poison; but if you identify yourself with either patriotism or the feeling of anti-patriotism, then you cannot discover what is true. June 21, 2011

  Now, we have created many hindrances, such as nationalism, patriotism, imitative following of authority, bowing down to tradition, the continual search for comfort. All these we have created throug...