“Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.”
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“I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination.”
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“*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.”
― Mind Is a Myth: Conversations With Ug Krishnamurthi
― Mind Is a Myth: Conversations With Ug Krishnamurthi
“The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.”
― No Way Out
― No Way Out
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