U. G. Krishnamurti Short Quotes

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

U. G. Krishnamurti
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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Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

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I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.

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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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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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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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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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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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Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

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We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

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The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.

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If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

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It is the body that is immortal. It is living from moment to moment. As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.

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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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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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