Tag:  Truth

• We have to find out what is the accurate, correct, right action, or right livelihood in the world of reality, and reality includes illusion July 31, 2009

  Questioner: Is a motive necessary in business? What is the right motive in earning a livelihood? Krishnamurti: What do you think is the right livelihood? - not what is the most convenient, not ...

• A satisfactory explanation, or a comforting belief, can put you soothingly to sleep; but is that what you want? August 05, 2009

  Comfort is one thing, and truth another; they lead away from each other. If you seek comfort, you may find it in an explanation, a drug or a belief; but it will be temporary, and sooner or later...

• Can you and I, live with what we actually are? August 30, 2009

  Know what it means to live with actuality. In observing myself I find I am jealous, anxious, or envious - I realize that. Now I want to live with that because it is only when I live with something ...

• You cannot repeat truth, because truth is never constant. September 13, 2009

  Question: I would like to help you by doing propaganda for your teachings. Can you advise the best way? Krishnamurti: To be a propagandist is to be a liar. (Laughter.) Don't laugh, Sir...

• Comfort is one thing, and truth another; September 14, 2009

  Comfort is one thing, and truth another; they lead away from each other. If you seek comfort, you may find it in an explanation, a drug or a belief; but it will be temporary, and sooner or later y...

• 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...

• It is only that truth that liberates, and nothing else. That is why you must stand completely alone. November 26, 2009

  We do not listen. There are too many noises about us; inside us, there is too much talk, too much questioning, too much demanding, too many urges, compulsions. We have so many things and we never l...

• Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it; November 30, 2009

  Freedom cannot be given; freedom is something that comes into being when you do not seek it; it comes into being only when you know you are a prisoner, when you know for yourself completely the sta...

• Philosophy means love of truth, not love of thought. December 17, 2009

  When the mind realizes the limitation, the narrowness, the finiteness of thought, then only it can ask the question: what is truth? Is this clear? I do not accept truth given by philosophers - that...

• 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 ...

• The more you are interested in something, the more your intention to understand, the more simple, clear, free the mind is. February 27, 2010

  Questioner: You say the mind, memory and the thought process, have to cease before there can be understanding, and yet you are communicating to us. Is what you say the experience of something in th...

• In spite of your emphatic denial of the need of a guru, are you not yourself a guru? March 25, 2010

  Question: In spite of your emphatic denial of the need of a guru, are you not yourself a guru? What is the difference? Krishnamurti: Sir, what do you mean by a guru? Why do you need a guru? Whe...

• That you inquire after truth implies that you believe in a path to truth, and this is the first illusion in which you are caught. May 14, 2010

  When you speak of a path to truth, it implies that truth, this living reality, is not in the present, but somewhere in the distance, somewhere in the future. Now to me, truth is fulfillment, and to...

• That which is real will be known when the various forms of illusions have ceased. May 26, 2010

  Do not let us concern ourselves about what is cosmic consciousness, truth, and so on. That which is real will be known when the various forms of illusions have ceased. As the mind is capable of suc...

• When you see something clearly as being true - and clarity is always true - there is no other action but the action of clarity. August 07, 2010

  Questioner: How can you tell when you have true perception of what you should do, when one line of action is going to hurt someone and yet will benefit others? Krishnamurti: When you see s...

• But we do not want the new, we do not want to be reborn. All that we want is to be made certain. August 11, 2010

  Questioner: You say that one must die to be reborn, that in the ending there is beginning. But to us, all ending is suffering, whether it is ending of life or of a happy and rich experience. How th...

• Surely, truth is not something distant; truth is in the little things of everyday life - in every word, in every smile, in every relationship - only we do not know how to see it; August 14, 2010

  Now, this is your problem, it is not my problem; and your problem is this, is it not? - you say, "Certain people - two, or several, or hundreds - have made efforts, have struggled, have sought trut...

• There is only one truth, but you cannot go to it through any sect, through any religion. May 07, 2011

  We say religions unify. On the contrary. Look at the world split up into narrow little sects, fighting against each other to increase their membership, their wealth, their positions, their authorit...

• You cannot find truth, you cannot find God, because your search is but an escape from fear, your search is but a desire for a culmination. September 13, 2011

  Can you ever find God? Can you ever find truth? But truth exists; God is. You cannot find truth, you cannot find God, because your search is but an escape from fear, your search is but a desire for...