Mar 6, 2012

Passages from The Courage to Stand Alone

The Courage to Stand Alone - U.G. Krishnamurti

Do you know anything about yourself, first of all? What do you know? Tell me. Hm?

Q: What he knows. 

U.G.: What he has been told: where he lives, what his name is; how much money he is drawing every month, his telephone number, people he has met, how many experiences he has gathered during the course of his 30 years, and all the books he has read. That's all that he can tell you. He can repeat mechanically, all the information he has gathered and all the experiences he has collected. And so that is all that is there. Why are you dissatisfied with it, and why are you searching for something other than that? Can you tell me something about yourself other than the information that you gathered, what you know?



The Courage to Stand Alone - U.G. Krishnamurti

Wanting to have pleasure all the time creates the pain here



The Courage to Stand Alone - U.G. Krishnamurti

Any energy that you create through this thinking is destructive for this body.



The Courage to Stand Alone - U.G. Krishnamurti 

 Wanting to be happy creates the unhappiness




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