Inspirational quotes by U. G. Krishnamurti

“Here there is no need to sit in special postures and control your breath. Even while my eyes are open, in fact no matter what I am doing, I am in a state of samadhi. The knowledge you have about samadhi is what is keeping you away from it. Samadhi comes after the ending of all you have ever known…”

                                    U. G. Krishnamurti (Mind is a Myth, p57)

“I do not know anything about freedom, because I do not know anything about myself, free, enslaved, or otherwise. Freedom and self-knowledge are linked. Since I do not know myself and have no way of seeing myself, except by the knowledge given me by my culture, the question of wanting to be free does not arise at all. The knowledge you have about freedom denies the very possibility of freedom. …When you stop looking at yourself with the knowledge you have, the demand to be free from that self drops away.”

                                    U. G. Krishnamurti (Mind is a Myth, p79)

“You are lost in a jungle, and you have no way of finding your way out. Night is fast approaching, the wild animals are there, including the cobras, and still you are lost. What do you do in such a situation? You just stop. You don’t move…”

                                    U.G. Krishnamurti

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These inspirational quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.