Tag:  Fear

• Through attachment the inevitable darkness of fear is waiting August 19, 2009

  One may depend on belief, or on an experience, or on a conclusion attached to a particular prejudice; how deeply does this attachment go? I do not know if you have observed it in yourself. We were ...

• Most of us want to be occupied; otherwise we shall feel lost, otherwise we do not know what to do, we will be lonely, we will be confronted with what we actually are August 20, 2009

  Please listen quietly: we know that thought creates fear. One of the functions of thought is to be occupied, to be thinking about something all the time. Like a housewife who thinks about the food,...

• It is the fear of being nothing that compels us to accumulate; October 26, 2009

  Why do we store up flattery and insult, hurt and affection? Without this accumulation of experiences and their responses, we are not; we are nothing if we have no name, no attachment, no belief. It...

• From my point of view, religions with all their intermediaries, their ceremonies, their priests, destroy creative understanding and pervert judgment. November 08, 2009

  Some of you are seeking physical security through wealth, comfort, and the power over others that wealth gives you; you are interested in social differences and social privileges that assure you of...

• We have divided life into dying and living. And this division has brought about great fear. And out of that fear we invent all kinds of theories, very comforting, may be illusory, but it is very comforting, illusions are comfortably neurotic. January 14, 2010

  So for us death is total ending, the ending of your attachment - right?-ending all that you have collected. You cannot take it with you. You may like to have it until the last minute, but you canno...

• Followers are those who want power through knowledge, through enlightenment January 16, 2010

  What is pleasure? To possess a beautiful car! Or have lovely 12th century furniture; to polish it, to look at it, to evaluate. There is a furniture in England, in a particular room, it's about l6th...

• The 'me' is created by thought and the 'me' says: "I am independent of thought". January 18, 2010

  How does one perceive the whole of anything? The whole of fear, not the broken up of fear in different forms or the fear of the unconscious and the conscious - in the conscious and in the unconscio...

• As long as you think time and thought are necessary, in the psychological world, in the world of the self, in the world of psyche, in the world of inside the skin, then you will be perpetually in fear. March 05, 2010

  Thought is necessary, time is necessary. To go from here to there time is necessary. And thought is necessary to drive a car, to take a bus or train. Thought is necessary, time is necessary at that...

• The relationship between what one is and what one desires to be causes fear. May 07, 2010

  Fear can exist only in relationship; fear cannot exist by itself, in isolation. There is no such thing as abstract fear; there is fear of the known or the unknown, fear of what one has done or what...

• Though we have theories, speculations, and there are certain observable facts, death is still the unknown. October 15, 2010

  What do we mean by death? Though we have theories, speculations, and there are certain observable facts, death is still the unknown. Whatever we may know about it, death itself cannot be brought in...

• If what I say is destructive to any particular organization or society, then either that society is false or what I say is false; and it is for you to consider, to judge and to act without compromise. January 07, 2011

  Question: We have been told that at least once you have been used by the dark powers and that you even now you are an instrument in their hands for the destruction of the Theosophical Society. Is i...

• There cannot be human, vital relationships, or living joyously in the plenitude of life in the present - which to me is the only eternity - so long as mind and heart are crippled through fear; May 25, 2011

  What I want to say is that there cannot be human, vital relationships, or living joyously in the plenitude of life in the present - which to me is the only eternity - so long as mind and heart are ...

• The very inquiry into the future shows that you are already dying. May 30, 2011

  As long as the mind is a slave to time, there must be the fear of death, the fear and the hope of a future life, and a constant inquiry into that question. That is, where there is fear there is alr...

• Patriotism is a disease, and when you begin to realize, become aware that it is a disease, then you will see how your mind is reacting to that disease. June 24, 2011

  Patriotism, whether it is of the western kind, or of the eastern kind, is the same, a poison in human beings that is really distorting thought. So patriotism is a disease, and when you begin to rea...

• Where there is fear there must be discipline, compulsion, influence, domination, the search for power which the mind glorifies as virtue and as divine. August 15, 2011

  In this process of the perpetuation of the "I", that self-preserving memory, in the perpetuation of that "I" is born fear - not superficial fear, but the fundamental fear with which I shall deal pr...

• You have created disciplines, codes and authorities, and your life is moulded, controlled and shaped by compulsion of various forms and degrees. August 16, 2011

  Now all life is moulded by fear and conflict, and hence by compulsion, by the enforcing of decrees and fetters which some consider virtuous and worthy, and others baneful and evil. Isn't that so? T...

• As in a circus the animals are trained to function for the amusement of spectators, so the individual through fear seeks out these spiritual trainers whom he calls priests and swamis, who are the defenders of spurious spirituality and the inanities of religion. September 12, 2011

  Where there is the craving for security there must be fear, so mind and heart seek out spiritual trainers to learn from them ways of escape. As in a circus the animals are trained to function for t...

• When we say we seek out or cultivate a new value, it is but the overcoming of that in which the mind is already caught up, which is its opposite. October 12, 2011

  When we say we seek out or cultivate a new value, it is but the overcoming of that in which the mind is already caught up, which is its opposite. This choice is based on attraction to one or fear o...

• The illusion of economic security is shown throughout the world by these depressions, crises, wars, calamities, and chaos. November 08, 2011

  As we have built up through centuries, generation after generation, this wheel of self-protection, spiritual and economic, let us find out if spiritual or economic self-protection is real. Perhaps ...

• Question: I do not care what happens after death, but I am afraid of dying. Must I fight this fear, and how can I overcome it? January 15, 2012

  Question: I do not care what happens after death, but I am afraid of dying. Must I fight this fear, and how can I overcome it? Krishnamurti: By living in the present. Eternity is not in the futu...

• Illusion divides itself infinitely. March 04, 2012

  Question: Do you believe in the existence of the soul? Does this continue to live infinitely after the death of the body? Krishnamurti: Most people believe in the existence of the soul in some f...

• In order to escape from fear, you create faith. March 17, 2012

  Question: A person who is religiously minded but who has the power to think deeply may lose his religious faith after listening to you. but if his fear remains, what advantage will that be for him?...

• Man is almost suffocated in the prison of false values, of which he is unconscious. March 20, 2012

  Man is almost suffocated in the prison of false values, of which he is unconscious. Through deep questioning and suffering he becomes aware of that which he has built about himself, and not through...

• To discuss and intellectually discover what is intelligence would be, I feel, a waste of time and energy, for that would not lift the burden of ignorance and illusion. March 27, 2012

  To discuss and intellectually discover what is intelligence would be, I feel, a waste of time and energy, for that would not lift the burden of ignorance and illusion. Instead of inquiring what is ...

• Fear is so subtle. so swift, so cunning, that it hides itself in many places. May 04, 2012

  Question: You say that all those who belong to a religion or who hold a belief are enslaved by fear. Is one free of fear by the mere fact of belonging to no religion? Are you yourself, who belong t...

• What happens when you seek security, certainty? May 09, 2012

  What happens when you seek security, certainty? There must be fear; and if you are conscious of your thought, you will discern that it has its root in fear. Morality, religion and objective conditi...

• What really awakens intelligence is action without the fear of not adjusting oneself to a standard or an ideal. May 27, 2012

  Question: I have a daughter who was formerly very studious and loved her music, but now she does nothing but read your books. What do you advise her mother to do? (Laughter) Krishnamurti: I wond...

• One can wholly eliminate fear, it is not a fundamental part of life. October 04, 2012

  Question: Is fear a fundamental part of life, so that the understanding of it merely enables us the better to accept it; or is it something that can be transmuted into something else; or again, som...

• The will to survive, the will to be satisfied, the will to continue - this is the very root cause of fear. December 04, 2012

  The will to survive, the will to be satisfied, the will to continue - this is the very root cause of fear. Do you know this to be so? If you do, then what do you mean by "knowing"? Do you know t...

• Please do not [at the beginning of these talks] expect an immediate solution for your various problems. January 07, 2013

  Please do not [at the beginning of these talks] expect an immediate solution for your various problems. I know Europe is a perfect madhouse, in which there is talk of peace and at the same time pre...

• Intellect merely guides fear, controls it, but can never destroy it, for intellect is the very cause of fear. January 15, 2013

  You can know yourself only when you love completely. This, again, is the whole process of life, not to be gathered in a few moments, from a few words of mine. You cannot be yourself when love is de...

• When there is discontentment, sorrow, the intellect mechanically comes forward with solutions, explanations, tentative suggestions, which gradually crystallize and become habits of thought. January 25, 2013

  We are trying to escape, run away from ignorance and fear, through forming habits that will counteract them, that will resist them - habits of ideals and morality. When there is discontentment, sor...

• There is only one fundamental problem, which expresses itself in many different ways. February 01, 2013

  Each one of us has a peculiar and particular problem of his own. Some are concerned with death and the fear of death and what is to happen in the hereafter; some are so lonely in their occupations ...

• Desire cannot exist by itself, it must always be in relation to something. February 06, 2013

  I have tried to explain that renewal, rebirth, must be spontaneous and not the result of effort. Before finding out if effort is moral or immoral, important or unimportant, we must first conside...

• Is not the mind, as we know it, an instrument developed for survival, for satisfaction, for self-protection, for resistance, and therefore the instrument of fear? February 16, 2013

  To change the form of desire from the old to the new is merely to recondition the mind, for it will still be of desire and thus it will always be a source of fear. So we must understand the process...

• Do not think by merely wishing for peace, you will have peace, when in your daily life of relationship you are aggressive, acquisitive, seeking psychological security here or in the hereafter. April 13, 2013

  Do not think by merely wishing for peace, you will have peace, when in your daily life of relationship you are aggressive, acquisitive, seeking psychological security here or in the hereafter. You ...