Tag:  Comfort

• A satisfactory explanation, or a comforting belief, can put you soothingly to sleep; but is that what you want? August 05, 2009

  Comfort is one thing, and truth another; they lead away from each other. If you seek comfort, you may find it in an explanation, a drug or a belief; but it will be temporary, and sooner or later y...

• Comfort is one thing, and truth another; September 14, 2009

  Comfort is one thing, and truth another; they lead away from each other. If you seek comfort, you may find it in an explanation, a drug or a belief; but it will be temporary, and sooner or later y...

• Whatever you try to do, you do intellectually, and therefore falsely. February 15, 2011

  Question: I recognize a conflict within me, yet that conflict does not create a crisis, a consuming flame within me, urging me to resolve that conflict and realize truth. How would you act in my pl...

• When you realize that there is no such thing as comfort, no such thing as security, either in possession of things or of ideas, then you face life as it is, not with the background of intense longing for comfort. February 25, 2011

  Since most of us are unconsciously seeking a shelter, a place of safety in which we shall not be hurt, since most of us are seeking in false values an escape from continual conflict, therefore I sa...

• Perhaps you are merely trying to use my words as a means of escape; perhaps you are using my words, my ideas to fill your own emptiness. August 26, 2011

  Question: I understand you to say that conflict ceases when it is faced without the desire to escape. I love someone who doesn't love me, and I am lonely and miserable. I honestly think I am facing...

• We have taken such shelter behind false values that we have ceased to think at all, and then we ask, "What are we to do? October 28, 2011

  Question: How is it possible to awaken thought in an organism wherein the mechanism requisite for the apprehension of abstract ideas is absent? Krishnamurti: By the simple process of suffering; ...

• There is no security, no comfort, but only clarity of thought which brings about the understanding of the fundamental cause of suffering, which alone will liberate man. December 25, 2011

  There is no security, no comfort, but only clarity of thought which brings about the understanding of the fundamental cause of suffering, which alone will liberate man. In this liberation lies the ...

• Should not traditions, beliefs, dogmas be questioned? March 08, 2012

  Question: Your observations upon authority were greeted in some quarters as an attack upon the churches. Don't you think you should make it clear to your listeners that this word "attack" is misapp...

• The continual process of awakening the mind from its own limitations is true experience. March 14, 2012

  What is it that will awaken the individual from his self satisfied, egotistic accumulations? The continual process of awakening the mind from its own limitations is true experience. When there is t...

• A man who would understand truth must be free from the desire for security and comfort. March 31, 2012

  Question: I am deeply interested in your ideas, but I am opposed by my family and the priest. What should be my attitude towards them? Krishnamurti: If you desire to understand truth, life, then...