Tag:  Escape

• There is a common need to escape, and mutually we use each other. This usage is called love. December 29, 2009

  Question: Why should I not escape from myself? I have nothing to be proud of, and by being identified with my wife, who is much better than I am, I get away from myself. Krishnamurti: Of course,...

• We are as war-minded as ever, we hate some other group of people, we despise this political leader and support that, we are duped by organized religions, we are nationalistic, and our miseries continue; January 04, 2010

  It is obvious that radio music is a marvellous escape. Next door, they kept the thing going all day long and far into the night. The father went off to his office fairly early. The mother and daugh...

• With most of us, the difficulty is that we are unaware of our escapes. We are so conditioned, so accustomed to our escapes, that we take them as realities. January 11, 2010

  Now, must we not be alone? At present we are not alone - we are merely a bundle of influences. We are the result of all kinds of influences - social, religious, economic. hereditary, climatic. Thro...

• The shallow are ever afraid of what they are; but what they are is the truth. January 13, 2010

  The very desire to take shelter through conditioning breeds more strife, more problems; for conditioning is separating, and the separate, the isolated cannot live. The separate, by joining itself ...

• 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...

• Your business, your religion, your gods, your leaders, your political and economic actions, your escapes, your social activities, your joining one party and rejecting another - all that is emphasizing and giving strength to the 'me'. February 07, 2010

  What do we mean by the problem of sex? Is it the act, or is it a thought about the act? Surely it is not the act. The sexual act is no problem to you, any more than eating is a problem to you, but ...

• Most of us do not want to die to anything, particularly to that which gives us pleasure, to the memory of things that we have known and cherished. March 28, 2010

  Unfortunately, most of us do not want to die to anything, particularly to that which gives us pleasure, to the memory of things that we have known and cherished. We would rather find an escape, liv...

• Whatever you try to do, you do intellectually, and therefore falsely. February 15, 2011

  Question: I recognize a conflict within me, yet that conflict does not create a crisis, a consuming flame within me, urging me to resolve that conflict and realize truth. How would you act in my pl...

• Our very seeking for God or truth is an escape. April 04, 2011

  Questioner: You have spoken against the spirit of acquisition, both spiritual and material. Does not contemplation help us to understand and meet life completely? Krishnamurti: Is not contemplat...

• When all the avenues of escape which the mind has invented have been understood and blocked, there remains only suffering, and then you will understand it. April 05, 2011

  Comment: You said the other day that self-analysis is destructive, but I think that analyzing the cause of suffering gives one wisdom. Krishnamurti: Wisdom is not in analysis. You suffer, and by...

• Most of you who are religiously inclined, are in search of truth, and that very search indicates that you are escaping from the conflict of the present May 05, 2011

  To me, there is a living reality. There is something eternally becoming, fundamental, real, lasting, but it cannot be preconceived; it demands no belief, it demands a mind that is not tethered to a...

• Heaven knows, we have conflicts all day long, but we have trained our mind to be cunning, and so pass over these conflicts lightly, escape from them. May 28, 2011

  To change one's attitude there must be great affliction, not contentment, great burning conflict which will force you to discover; and heaven knows, we have conflicts all day long, but we have trai...

• One should bear in mind that what we call accumulation of sorrows does not lead to intensity, nor does the multiplication of suffering lead to its own dissolution; July 19, 2011

  One should bear in mind that what we call accumulation of sorrows does not lead to intensity, nor does the multiplication of suffering lead to its own dissolution; for acuteness of mind in sufferin...

• You merely seek to adjust yourselves to a pattern, in order to escape from conflict or from your environment. August 02, 2011

  Why do you always ask for a method, for a system? What does it indicate, this desire for a method? Every demand for a method indicates the desire to escape. You want me to lay down a system so that...

• To me religion is the false result of a false cause, the cause being conflict, and religion merely a means of escape from that conflict. August 24, 2011

  Question: In your opinion, would it be better for me to become a deaconess of the Protestant Episcopal Church, or could I be of greater service to the world by remaining as I am? Krishnamurti: I...

• Perhaps you are merely trying to use my words as a means of escape; perhaps you are using my words, my ideas to fill your own emptiness. August 26, 2011

  Question: I understand you to say that conflict ceases when it is faced without the desire to escape. I love someone who doesn't love me, and I am lonely and miserable. I honestly think I am facing...

• Explanations and formulas offer only means of escape from conflict. November 14, 2011

  Please do not, if I may suggest, look to me for new explanations during this talk, or for a set of formulas, or definitions. Such explanations and formulas offer only means of escape from conflict....

• We have built up through many centuries an environment of such illusions as authority, imitativeness, beliefs, ideals, which give us the opportunity of subtle escape. January 22, 2012

  Now we have built up through many centuries an environment of such illusions as authority, imitativeness, beliefs, ideals, which give us the opportunity of subtle escape. People suffer within that ...

• The very search for reality is an illusion, because it is but an escape. January 23, 2012

  You have to ask yourself whether you are seeking a solution for your suffering within the circle of illusion, within the environment of centuries, and thus creating further illusions and entrenchin...