Life quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti and U. G. Krishnamurti

"Can the known, which is the mind- because the mind is known, the result of the past- can that mind seek the unknown? If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come, I cannot go after it. ...When the mind is silent, when it is no longer projecting itself into the future, wishing for something, when the mind is really quiet, profoundly peaceful, the unknown comes into being. You don't have to search for it. You cannot invite it. That which you can invite is only that which you know. You cannot invite an unknown guest. You can only invite one you know. But you do not know the unknown, God, reality, or what you will. It must come."

Jiddu Krishnamurti (The First and Last Freedom, chpt.28)

"If you don't know what to do, you do nothing, don't you? Absolutely nothing. Then inwardly you are completely silent. Do you understand what that means? It means that you are not seeking, not wanting, not pursuing; there is no centre at all. Then there is love."

Jiddu Krishnamurti (Freedom from the Known, p87)

“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

"In that state of effortless attention there comes an extraordinary sense of freedom, and only then, being totally empty, quiet, still, is the mind capable of discovering that which is eternal."

Jiddu Krishnamurti , (talks at Saanen, Aug2/64)

"There is no leader, there is no teacher, there is nobody to tell you what to do. You are alone in this mad brutal world." Jiddu Krishnamurti (Freedom from the Known, p94)

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.