"To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is."

-~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it

by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being

limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever,

cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or

to coerce people along any particular path. You must climb towards

the Truth.  It cannot be 'stepped down' or organized for you."

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, when dissolving The Order Of The Star, August 1929.

“Understanding of the self only arises in relationship,

in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas,

and things, to trees, the earth, and the world around

you and within you.  Relationship is the mirror in which

the self is revealed.  Without self-knowledge there is

no basis for right thought and action.”

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the solving of a problem."

~ J. Krishnamurti

Memory Negates Love

Is it possible to love without thinking? What do you mean by thinking? Thinking is a response to memories of pain or pleasure. There is no thinking without the residue which incomplete experience leaves. Love is different from emotion and feeling. Love cannot be brought into the field of thought; whereas feeling and emotion can be brought. Love is a flame without smoke, ever fresh, creative, joyous.  Such love is dangerous to society, to relationship. So, thought steps in, modifies, guides it, legalizes it, puts it out of danger; then one can live with it. Do you not know that when you love someone, you love the whole of mankind? Do you not know how dangerous it is to love man? Then, there is no barrier, no nationality;

then, there is no craving for power and position, and things assume their values. Such a man is a danger to society.

For the being of love, the process of memory must come to an end. Memory comes into being only when experience is not fully, completely understood. Memory is only the residue of experience; it is the result of a challenge which is not fully comprehended. Life is a process of challenge and response. Challenge is always new but the response is ever old. This response, which is conditioning, which is the result of the past, must be understood and not disciplined or condemned away. It means living each day anew, fully and completely. This complete living is possible only when there is love, when your heart is full, not with the words nor with the things made by the mind. Only where there is love, memory ceases; then every movement is a rebirth.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

This is from 'The Book of Life:

Daily Meditations with J. Krishnamurti':

"I think there is an art of listening, which is to listen completley without any motive, because a motive in listening is a distraction.  If you can listen with complete attention, then there is no resistance, either to your own thoughts or to what is being said - which does not mean you will be mesmerized by words.  But it is only the very silent, quiet mind that finds out what is true, not a mind which is furiously active, thinking, resisting."

From:  To Be Human by J. Krishnamurti - pg. 4

The fact is that truth is life and life has no permanency. Life has to be discovered from moment to moment, from day to day. It has to be discovered. It cannot be taken for granted. If you take it for granted that you know life, then you are not living. Three meals a day, clothing, shelter, sex, your job, your amusement, and your thinking process—that dull, repetitive process is not life. Life is something to be discovered. And you cannot discover it if you have not lost, put aside the things that you have found. Do experiment with what I am saying. Put aside your philosophies, your religions, your customs, your racial taboos, and all the rest of it. For they are not life. If you are caught in those things, you will never discover life.

A man who says he knows is already dead. But the man who thinks “I don’t know,” who is discovering, finding out, who is not seeking an end, not thinking in terms of arriving or becoming—such a man is living, and that living is truth.

Krishnamurti, J. (2011-01-12). To Be Human (Kindle Locations 459-466). Shambhala Publications. Kindle Edition.