“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
Real culture is neither a
matter of breeding, nor of
learning, nor of talent, nor
even of genius, but of the
timeless movement to
find happiness… truth.
When this movement is
blocked by authority , by
tradition, by fear, there is
decay. - 7
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
Your parents and society want you to live
safely, and you also want to live safely.
Living safely generally means living in
limitation and therefore in fear. Surely, the
function of education is to help each one of
us to live freely and without fear, is it not?
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
Do you know what
intelligence is? It is the
capacity, surely to think
freely, without fear,
without a formula, so that
you begin to discover for
yourself what is real, what
is true. But if you are
frightened you will never
be intelligent. 11
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
As long as you conform, as long as you
are ambitious, acquisitive, corrupting and
destroying others in the pursuit of position
and power, you are considered a
respectable citizen. You are educated to fit
into society. But that is not education, it is
merely a process which conditions you to
conform to a pattern.
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
The man who really wants to find out whether
or not there is a state beyond the framework of
time, must be free of civilization; that is, he
must be free of the collective will and stand
alone. And this is an essential part of
education…to learn to stand alone so that you
are not caught either in the will of the many or
in the will of the one… 52
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
Real life is doing something
which you love to do with
your whole being so that
there is no inner
contradiction, no war
between what you are
doing and what you think
you should do. 79
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
This world is ours, we are human beings
living together. And if a man is seeking
(truth) he shuns temples because they
divide people The Christian church, the
Mohammedan mosque, your own Hindu
temple—they are all divide people, and a
man who is seeking (truth) will have none
of these things. 93
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
Now, if you can see through this whole social
structure, the cultural pattern of the collective will
which we call civilization—if you can understand
all that and break away from it, break through
the prison walls of your particular society,
whether Hindu, communist, or Chrisitian, then
you will find that there comes a confidence which
is not tainted with the sense of arrogance. It is
the confidence of innocence.
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
Our present education is rotten because it
teaches us to love success and not what we
are doing. The result has become more
important than the action. 132
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
We dig a little hole and barricade ourselves in
it with our families, with our ambitions, our
cultures, our fears, our gods, our various
forms of worship, and there we die letting life
go by—that life which is impermanent,
constantly changing, which is so swift, which
has such enormous depths, such extraordinary
vitality and beauty. 154
“Think On These Things”
J. Krishnamurti
Unless we are deeply religious, we shall only
create more confusion, further misery; and
religion has nothing to do with priest, churches,
dogmas, or organized beliefs… Religion is the
seeking out of what is truth…and this search
requires enormous energy, wide intelligence,
and subtle thinking. - 255