U.G. Krishnamurti Professions : Writer Born : July 9, 1918 Died : March 22, 2007 Browse All Authors Top 54 quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point where we realize that no dialogue is possible, that no dialogue is necessary. When I say understanding or seeing, they mean something different to me. Understanding is a state of being where the question isn't there any more. There is nothing there that says, "Now I understand!" That's the basic difficulty between us. By understanding what I am saying, you are not going to get anywhere. U.G. Krishnamurti different understanding mean I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man. U.G. Krishnamurti technology men hands 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. U.G. Krishnamurti hopeless feelings ideas Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events. U.G. Krishnamurti creating light two 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. U.G. Krishnamurti rational mines may 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. U.G. Krishnamurti purpose want culture There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death. U.G. Krishnamurti soul belief answers The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know. U.G. Krishnamurti losing want facts 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. U.G. Krishnamurti gone men firsts I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination. U.G. Krishnamurti energy imagination people Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised U.G. Krishnamurti physiological term simple You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death. U.G. Krishnamurti wiping-out survival talking Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart. U.G. Krishnamurti structure whole blow You cannot experience the death of anybody U.G. Krishnamurti Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
