U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

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• All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

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  Long, Unhappy, Guarantees

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• Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

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  Unique, Creating, Mold

  "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, 1987.

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• There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.

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  Giving, Romance, Faces

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• There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

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  Men, Problem

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.2, Sentient Publications

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• The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.

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  Reality, Energy, Different

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• What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there. So that's the reason why you keep asking the question: you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life.

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  Years, Long, Guarantees

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• All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.

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  Prayer, Self, Opposites

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• I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.

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  Spiritual, Goal, Enlightenment

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• Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and various other means to protect it.
  
  You give charity to prevent the have-nots from rebelling against you. It also makes you feel less guilty. All do-gooders feel 'high' when they do good.

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  Mean, Law, Giving

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• *Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

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  Path, Rejects, Ifs

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• You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

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  Thinking, Acting, Energy

  "A Taste of Death: Thirty Days with U.G. in Gstaad, Switzerland" by Mahesh Bhatt, 1995.

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• This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life.

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  Self, Pulse, Lightning

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• Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

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  Self, Deception, Needs

  "Stopped in Our Tracks, Book Two: Excerpts from U.G.'s Dialogues". Book by K. Chandrasekhar, 2005.

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• Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.

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  Believe, Cost, Results

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• You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'.
  
  It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.

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  Giving Up, Way, Facts

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• The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

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  Facts, Problem, Feels

  "No Way Out: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti". Book edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty and Anthony Paul Frank Naronha (Chapter 7: What Kind Of Human Being Do You Want?), 2002.

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• The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"

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  Life, Simple, Self

  "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".

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• Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

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  Self, Giving, Constant

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• Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

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  Men, Practice, Perfect

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• There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.

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  Premises

  "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, Ch. 1: The Certainty That Blasts Everything, 1987.

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• If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Helping

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.146, Sentient Publications

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• There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.

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  Needs, World, Change Yourself

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• My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That’s all that I can say. ‘If I fall....’ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.

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  Fall, People, Crutches

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• Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

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  Ideas, Feelings, Hopeless

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• Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

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  Men, Two, Boredom

  "No Way Out : Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti" by U.G. Krishnamurti, ch. 4: You Invent Your Reality, 2002.

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