Krishnamurti

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The dissolution of the self is not the evolution of knowledge of the self; time does not enter into it at all.

Beauty is never time-binding; it is wholly free of time and so of culture.

You cannot, may not, invite joy; if you do, it becomes pleasure.

The thinker is the thought; the perceiver is the perceived.

Thought by its very nature and structure cannot grasp the whole flow of life as a total movement.

The description is not the described; the word is not the thing.

We are not religious though we believe, worship and go through endless, meaningless rituals.

Our politics have become refined gangsterism of power, deceit, personal or national, group against group.

Only man brings disorder to the universe. He is ruthless and extremely violent. Wherever he is, he brings misery and confusion in himself and in the world about him.

Act integrally as a total human being. When you have this sense of the whole, you will be related to the universe.

You live in your own dark isolation, and the escape from it is further darkness.

If you lose touch with nature, you lose touch with humanity.

Love is not memory, a remembrance of pleasures.

Knowledge cannot make man love another; it can create war and the instruments of destruction but cannot bring love to the heart, or peace to the mind.

Thought by its very nature is fragmentary, and so it lives in a fragmented world of division and conflict.

What thought thinks about is made into a reality, but it is not truth.

The movement of behaviour is the sure guide to yourself; it is the mirror of your consciousness.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation.

The aloneness of which I am speaking is pure, incorruptible; it is free of all tradition, dogma and opinion, of everything that another has said.

There must be total freedom, which means that the mind must be capable of standing completely alone.