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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Can one look at the question of what intelligence is not as a problem? Can you do it? If you do, that is the beginning of intelligence, which means the brain is already becoming free from its conditioning. But if you approach this as a question and then try to solve it, you are back in the old muddle. When one realises that the brain is conditioned to solve problems and therefore that you approach any question with a mind and brain that says, ‘I must solve it,’ you never meet the challenge afresh. To meet a problem afresh, any problem, is the beginning of intelligence.

From Where Can Peace Be Found?

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Is it possible for a conditioned brain to break conditioning immediately? This may be a theoretical, non-actual question – you may say it is impossible, it is just a theory, just a wish, a desire to be free of this conflict. If you examine the matter rationally, logically, with intelligence, you see that time will not solve this conditioning. The first thing to realise is that there is no psychological tomorrow. If you see, actually, not verbally, but deeply in your heart, in your mind, in the very depths of your being, you will realise that time will not solve this problem. And that means you have already broken the pattern, you have begun to see cracks in the pattern we have accepted, of time as a means of unravelling or breaking up this programmed brain. Once you see for yourself, clearly, absolutely, irrevocably, that time is not a freeing factor, you already begin to see cracks in the enclosure of the brain.

From The Network of Thought

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Are you aware that you are conditioned? After two thousand years of steady propaganda – baptism, Mass, constant repetition, repetition, repetition, you have become a Catholic; or through other repetitions you are a Hindu or Muslim – it is the same process. Are you aware that your brain is conditioned? It is not difficult to be aware that you are conditioned. When you say, ‘I am British’ – or German, Russian, French – you are conditioned. The Indian may think, ‘I have the greatest culture,’ but that culture has gone; in India they are completely at a loss, in disorder. So, if you are aware of being conditioned, is that awareness an idea or an actuality? Are you actually aware of your reactions?

From Can Conflict End?

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