Perhaps you have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go. … The mind that holds something in reserve, the mind that has a vested interest, the mind that clings to position, power, prestige, the mind that is respectable, which is a horror – such a mind can never abandon itself.
krishnamurti
The way of love
Thought must always be limited by the thinker who is conditioned. The thinker is always conditioned and is never free; if thought occurs, immediately idea follows. Idea in order to act is bound to create more confusion. Knowing all this, is it possible to act without idea? Yes, it is the way of love.
– Krishnamurti
Book of Life, 18 February
Can ideas ever produce action, or do ideas merely mold thought and therefore limit action?
– Krishnamurti
Meeting Everything Anew
This, after all, is the truth: to have the capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is.
– Krishnamurti
Belief is escape
The man who believes in God, the man who believes in the hereafter, or who has any other form of belief, is escaping from the fact of what he is.
– Krishnamurti
Falling Awake 