Freedom From the Known--Krishnamurti

Still digesting this one, and probably will be for a long time.
If you like, read it here.

"A respectable human being cannot possibly come
near to that infinite, immeasurable, reality."

"That is
the first thing to learn - not to seek"

"We need a tremendous amount of energy and we
dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing
off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution."

"a mind that has no fear is capable of great love"

"Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders."

"If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then."

"To understand anything you must live with it, you must observe it, you must
know all its content, its nature, its structure, its movement. Have you ever tried
living with yourself? If so, you will begin to see that yourself is not a static state, it
is a fresh living thing. And to live with a living thing your mind must also be alive.
And it cannot be alive if it is caught in opinions, judgments and values."

"Only when there is an emotional content do you become vital."

"that state of mind can be understood only
by yourself, by watching it and never trying to shape it, never taking sides, never
opposing, never agreeing, never justifying, never condemning, never judging -
which means watching it without any choice. And out of this choiceless
awareness perhaps the door will open and you will know what that dimension is
in which there is no conflict and no time."

"a mind that is all the time seeking pleasure must inevitably find its shadow, pain."

"A mind which is not crippled by memory has
real freedom."

"From the old you derive
pleasure, never from the new. There is no time in the new."

"It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain."

"fear is a dreadful thing which warps, twists and dulls our days."

"The
movement from certainty to uncertainty is what I call fear."

"Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented
from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty."

"When you see that you are a part of fear, not separate from it - that you are fear - then
you cannot do anything about it; then fear comes totally to an end."

"conflict will inevitably arise so long as there is a division between
`what should be' and `what is', and any conflict is a dissipation of energy"

"There is what is only when there is no
comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful."

"effort is a
dissipation of passion - passion which is vital energy - and you cannot do
anything without passion."

"You may preach non-violence for the rest of
your life and all the time be sowing the seeds of violence."

"Is it freedom when you are free from something - free from pain, free from
some kind of anxiety? Or is freedom itself something entirely different?"

"Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but
psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action."

"Time is the interval between the observer and the observed."

"To discover that nothing is permanent is of tremendous
importance for only then is the mind free, then you can look, and in that there is
great joy."

"we never ask, never, how to live
- to live with delight, with enchantment, with beauty every day."

"The man
who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of
death because to love is to die."

"To find out actually what takes place when you die you must die. This isn't a
joke. You must die - not physically but psychologically, inwardly, die to the things
you have cherished and to the things you are bitter about. If you have died to one
of your pleasures, the smallest or the greatest, naturally, without any enforcement
or argument, then you will know what it means to die. To die is to have a mind
that is completely empty of itself, empty of its daily longing, pleasure; and
agonies. Death is a renewal, a mutation, in which thought does not function at all
because thought is old. When there is death there is something totally new.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living."

"To divide anything into what should be and what is, is the most
deceptive way of dealing with life."

Ideas=the past
Action=the present

"Those who think a great deal are very materialistic because thought is matter"

"And space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is 
alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it 
can come upon something totally new."

"there is actually no such thing as 
security"

"What can 
be described is the known, and the freedom from the known can come into being 
only when there is a dying every day to the known, to the hurts, the flatteries, to 
all the images you have made, to all your experiences - dying every day so that 
the brain cells themselves become fresh,  young, innocent."

"A living mind is a still mind, a 
living mind is a mind that has no centre and therefore no space and time. Such a 
mind is limitless and that is the only truth, that is the only reality."

"it is a brutal thing to have ideals. If you have any 
ideals, beliefs or principles you cannot possibly look at yourself directly. So can 
you be completely negative, completely quiet, neither thinking nor afraid, and yet 
be extraordinarily, passionately alive?"