It is only a religious mind, a mind that is enquiring into itself, that is aware of its own movements, its own activity, which is the beginning of self-knowledge — it is only such a mind that is a revolutionary mind. And a revolutionary mind is a mutating mind is the religious mind. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
In the fear of life, the temptation of sorrow is created. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
As one beholds through a small window A single green leaf, a small patch of the vast blue sky, So I began to perceive Thee, in the beginning of All things. As the leaf faded and withered, the patch covered as with a Dark cloud, So didst Thou fade and vanish, But to be reborn again, As the single green […]
To know is to be ignorant. Not to know is the beginning of wisdom. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
A mind that is completely discontented can jump into reality — not a mind that is content, not a mind that is respectable, hedged about by beliefs. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Such is the nature of man, that for your first gift, he prostrates himself; for your second, kisses your hand; for the third, fawns; for the fourth, just nods his head once; for the fifth, becomes too familiar; for the sixth, insults you; and for the seventh, sues you because he was not given enough. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – […]
The Fourth Striving: From the beginning of one’s existence, to pay as quickly as possible for one’s arising and individuality, in order afterward to be free to lighten as much as possible the sorrow of our Common Father. G. I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
You have to make your own world, instead of succumbing to the one that presses on you. You have to turn the tables on what appears to be fate or the full weight of society. Against the greatest odds, you have to keep your wits about you and refuse to surrender to anyone or anything less than divine. You have […]
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get what you don’t want, you suffer. Even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. […]
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and “consolers,” offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become […]
