*/ If you begin to be aware, choicelessly, without condemnation, without justification, without identification, which is extremely difficult, then self-knowledge becomes extremely creative.

 */ Listen with intense creative understanding and stillness, which is not interpretation. Then it is your truth, and that is what liberates you and gives you freedom and happiness.

  */ If we do not understand the dual process of our own activities, our own feelings, and thoughts, we have no basis for right thinking.

 */ As long as there is envy, ambition, self-seeking, there can be no creativeness.

  */ All our thinking is the result of our conditioning, it comes from our accumulated experiences, memories, fears, hopes. Such a mind is obviously not free.

 */ Self-understanding is an enormous task. It is not to be done casually, later on, tomorrow, but rather every day, every moment, all the time.

  */ When you are angry, instead of saying that you will do something about it tomorrow, if you would see immediately the cause of anger and recognize it, be aware of it, there would be immediate transformation.

 */ If we can look at ourselves dispassionately so that the hidden emotions are not pressed back but invited forth and understood, the mind becomes really quiet. Only then there is the possibility of leading a full life.

  */ We can help each other to find the door to reality, but each one must open that door for yourself. This, it seems to me, is the only positive action.

 */ If you begin to be aware, choicelessly, without condemnation, without justification, without identification, which is extremely difficult, then self-knowledge becomes extremely creative.

  */ Life is a very complex problem and a very complex problem must naturally be approached very simply. Take for example a child which is a very complex entity; yet to understand a child our mind should be very simple.

 */ Our mind is revolving too fast with too many thoughts and feelings; it is scattered and wasteful.

  */ You move from one relationship to another till you find what you seek, which is satisfaction, gratification, and a sense of self-protection and comfort, all of which create conflict.

 */ The believer and the non-believer are both caught in their beliefs and are therefore incapable of finding what is true.

 */ To help another, one must understand, and understanding must begin with oneself. Self-knowledge must be the first step in the helping of others.

 */ If instead of trying to overcome anger, modifying or changing it, you accepted it and looked at it, if you were completely aware of it, without condemning or justifying it, there would be an instantaneous change.

  */ Awareness is not the result of practice, for practice implies the formation of habit. Habit is the denial of awareness.

 */ Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing

Discover the inner springs of your thoughts-feelings. That very discovery brings clarity and understanding.

* Krishnamurti  *