Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

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

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

When the wind blows across the various continents, it does not bring with it the nationalities of the countries through which it passes. So likewise with Life.

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.