Tag:  Ambition

• Is there such a thing as transformation? What is it to be transformed? November 15, 2009

  Questioner: Is there such a thing as transformation? What is it to be transformed? Krishnamurti: When you are observing, seeing the dirt on the road, seeing how politicians behave, seeing your o...

• The craving for experience is the beginning of illusion. November 16, 2009

  The craving for experience is the beginning of illusion. As you now realize, your visions were but the projections of your background, of your conditioning, and it is these projections that you ha...

• It is only that truth that liberates, and nothing else. That is why you must stand completely alone. November 26, 2009

  We do not listen. There are too many noises about us; inside us, there is too much talk, too much questioning, too much demanding, too many urges, compulsions. We have so many things and we never l...

• Mere reformation of the pattern of society only alters the surface, it brings about a more respectable form of ambition. December 03, 2009

  Society is not changed by example. Society may reform itself, it may bring about certain changes through political or economic revolution, but only the religious man can create a fundamental transf...

• Is anonymity degrading, and to be unknown despicable? Why do we pursue the famous, the popular? December 31, 2009

  Why is it that we crave to be recognized, to be made much of, to be encouraged? Why is it that we are such snobs? Why is it that we cling to our exclusiveness of name, position, acquisition? Is ano...

• Greatness is to be unknown, inwardly and outwardly to be as nothing; and that requires great penetration, great understanding, great affection. April 25, 2010

  Greatness is anonymity, to be anonymous is the greatest thing. The great cathedral, the great things of life, great sculpture, must be anonymous. They do not belong to any particular person, like t...

• Anyone who wants to become something, whether in this world or the next, is ambitious. August 26, 2010

  If we were not ambitious, what would happen? We would be nobody, would we not? We would be unrecognized, have no dreams of success, of being great, and we would merely live; but just to live in tha...

• There can never be a goal, a finality, because life is a continual becoming, and that becoming is immortality. June 04, 2012

  Question: What should be the ultimate goal of the individual? Krishnamurti: There can never be a goal, a finality, because life is a continual becoming, and that becoming is immortality. But the...

• To inquire into the unconditioned state when one's mind is limited is so utterly futile. December 02, 2012

  Questioner: There is a real difference between being unaware of our conditioning and imagining that we are unconditioned. Krishnamurti: Surely that is obvious. To inquire into the unconditioned ...