Tag:  Fact

• It is easy to perceive what is, but to be free of it is another matter July 21, 2009

  To imagine is one thing, and to perceive what is is another, but both are binding. It is easy to perceive what is, but to be free of it is another matter; for perception is clouded with judgment, ...

• 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...

• What is important, surely, is to observe the fact and not cling to opinions or merely discuss the symbol which represents the fact. July 04, 2010

  What is important, surely, is to observe the fact and not cling to opinions or merely discuss the symbol which represents the fact. Do you understand, sirs? The symbol is the word. Take death. The ...

• The fact is not outside the field of the mind. September 13, 2010

  Questioner: Is the fact different from the mind which interferes? Krishnamurti: The lady asks, is the fact different from the interference? Now, do think it out. I am not a Delphic oracle....

• Should we not, as the questioner points out, be aware of the two kinds of memories: the indispensable, relating to facts and figures, and the psychological memory? December 03, 2013

  Questioner: If we only consider the obvious meaning of your words, memory constitutes one of the mechanisms against which you have warned time and again. And yet you yourself, for instance, sometim...

• The problem is that I am only aware of factual memories and I am not aware of psychological memories. August 04, 2014

  As long as I have the screen of facts through which I translate every experience, the residue is falling below. If I have no screen then it will be quite different. The problem is that I am only...