What are you to do when you are confronted with, aware of, this sense of loneliness, which is one of the factors of sorrow? During our daily existence, we expend energy on being concerned with ourselves, and that energy is dissipated in activities that ultimately block all further expressions of energy, and that is loneliness. Loneliness is, after all, a blocking of all energy. Before, I was aware that I was lonely and I expended energy on escapes of various kinds – trivial, nonsensical, brutal, so-called spiritual activities. Expending energy in this way has kept me going, but I suffer from loneliness, and the energy gets completely blocked. When energy is not expended through escapes, energy is concentrated. So one realises that whatever the form of escape, whether subtle, conscious, unconscious, deliberate, or an act of will, it doesn’t resolve this problem. On the contrary, it makes it worse because in escaping, you engage in all kinds of absurdly irrational activities. Whereas if you do not escape because you see the truth of that, have an insight into it, then this whole sense of loneliness disappears, and something else comes about, which is the sense of passion.

From Facing a World in Crisis

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I do not know if you are aware how lonely you are. I do not mean solitude, I do not mean aloneness; I mean loneliness. You feel this loneliness when someone you love dies or someone you love turns away from you. When that person turns away from you, you are jealous, and that jealousy is the response of this loneliness, which is the questioning of the very centre that demands permanency. I do not know if you have ever been aware of this loneliness, the ache of loneliness, the complete isolation without having any relationship to anything. You must have felt it. Every person who is at all sensitive, thoughtful or aware feels it, and then, feeling this loneliness from which arises fear, we run away from it; take to drink, sex, church, God, rituals, anything in order to escape from this feeling of loneliness to something more satisfactory. For those who call themselves religious, God becomes an extraordinary escape; for those who are worldly, intellectual rationalisation is an escape; and if you have money, drink or sex is an escape. One thousand and one things are there to escape from this loneliness. And these escapes become all-important because they give you a sense of permanency. When that permanency is questioned, you are back again to the problem of loneliness and fear, and you try to fill this loneliness with knowledge, with education, with sex, with virtue. But nothing can fill it. If you have gone into yourself and observed this whole process, you will see that nothing can fill it. All that you have to do with loneliness is to face loneliness.

From Collected Works, Vol. 13

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We know sorrow at different levels: physical sorrow, physical pain, the sorrow of death, the sorrow that comes when there is no fulfilment, the sorrow resulting from a state of emptiness, the sorrow that comes when ambition is not fulfilled. There is the sorrow of not coming up to the standard or the good example, and the sorrow of the ideal. Finally, there is the sorrow of identification. We know various forms of sorrow at different psychological and physiological levels, and also we know the various forms of escapes, drink, rituals, repetition of words, the turning to tradition, looking to the future, looking for better times, better hopes, better circumstances. We know all these forms of escapes: religious, psychological, physical and material. The more we escape, the greater and more complex the problems become. When we look at the problem, our whole structure is a series of escapes. You explain away sorrow – to you, then, explanation has more significance than the depth, the meaning and the vitality of sorrow.

From Collected Works, Vol. 6

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There is personal sorrow and the sorrow of the world. There is the sorrow of ignorance and the sorrow of time. This ignorance is the lack of knowing oneself, and the sorrow of time is the deception that time can cure, heal and change. Most people are caught in that deception and either worship sorrow or explain it away. But in either case it continues, and one never asks oneself if it can come to an end. Self-pity is one of the elements of sorrow. Another element is being attached to someone and encouraging or fostering their attachment to you. Sorrow is not only when attachment fails you, but its seed is in the very beginning of that attachment. In all this, the trouble is the utter lack of knowing oneself. Knowing oneself is the ending of sorrow.

From The Urgency of Change

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To see the false as the false, the truth in the false, and truth as truth, such perception is that quality of intelligence which is neither yours nor mine – which then acts. That action has no distortion, no remorse. It doesn’t leave a mark, a footprint on the sands of time. That intelligence cannot be unless there is great compassion, love. There cannot be compassion if the activities of thought are anchored in any ideology or faith, or attached to a symbol or to a person. There must be freedom to be compassionate. And where there is that flame, that very flame is the movement of intelligence.

From Krishnamurti to Himself

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On homosexuality | J. #Krishnamurti
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IL MISTERIOSO PROCESSO DI TRASFORMAZIONE DI KRISHNAMURTI – Come Nessuno Te lo Ha Mai Raccontato
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There is no intelligence if there is no sensitivity of the body and mind – the sensitivity of feeling and the clarity of observation. Emotionalism and sentimentality prevent the sensitivity of feeling. Being sensitive in one area and dull in another leads to contradiction and conflict, which deny intelligence. The integration of many broken parts into a whole does not bring about intelligence. Sensitivity is attention, which is intelligence. Intelligence has nothing to do with knowledge or information. Knowledge is always the past; it can be called upon to act in the present, but it limits the present. Intelligence is always in the present, and of no time.

From The Only Revolution

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What #love is not | #Krishnamurti & Oliver Hunkin
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The skill of intelligence is to put knowledge in its right place. Without knowledge, it is not possible to live in this technological and almost mechanical civilisation, but knowledge will not transform the human being and society. Knowledge is not the excellence of intelligence; intelligence can and does use knowledge and thus transforms man and society. Intelligence is not the mere cultivation of the intellect and its integrity. It comes out of the understanding of the whole consciousness of man, yourself, not a part, a separate segment of yourself. The study and the understanding of the movement of your own mind and heart give birth to this intelligence.

From The Beauty of Life – Krishnamurti’s Journal

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