The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiBy our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIn awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiTradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhen one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.
Jiddu Krishnamurti