The Krishnamurti Foundation Annual Bulletin

‘Is there a root cause of our misery, of chaos and uncertainty, terror and war? If you can discover the cause, you will be free of it and therefore of the effect.’
Krishnamurti in Saanen, 1980

‘Can I ever be free or must I go from one conditioning to another? Can conditioning, with its centre, end?’
Krishnamurti in Ojai, 1978

‘There is a life not touched by hate, anger, jealousy and envy. To come upon it, one has to have great energy.’
Krishnamurti in Amsterdam, 1968

‘The whole movement of desire as will comes to an end in meditation.’
Krishnamurti in Madras (Chennai), 1973

‘Beauty can exist only when the self is not. When the mind, the brain is not chattering, caught in a net of words, when it is utterly quiet, when there is total absence of the ‘me’, the self, the ego, the persona, then you really see the extraordinary sense of beauty of the world.’
Krishnamurti in Ojai, California, 1984

‘Truth is not an experience, it is not something that you have remembered, recognised, experienced. Truth has no abiding place.’Krishnamurti in Rajghat, Varanasi, 1974

‘Can we think together because we love each other?’
Krishnamurti in Saanen, Switzerland, 1979

‘Is there an energy that can come about so as to bring a total transformation in the very process of the mind?’
Krishnamurti in Saanen, Switzerland, 1974

‘Can i look at myself without a word, without an image, without pride?’
Krishnamurti in Saanen, Switzerland, 1968

‘Is there something that thought can never touch, and is therefore incorruptible and timeless and eternal and therefore sacred?’
Krishnamurti in Amsterdam, 1968

‘You, in your own life of understanding, will come upon this strange energy which is incorruptible. This energy is the highest form of intelligence.’
Krishnamurti in Santa Monica, 1972

‘Absolute freedom implies absolute responsibility, that means absolute response totally to the problem. And one cannot possibly respond totally, if one has not learnt to live a life in which love, death, everyday living are deeply—not verbally— understood.’
Krishnamurti at Brockwood Park, 1972

‘Is there any area of the mind which is really free from the known? Is there any part of the brain which is not cultivated by thought? If we do not find it, then we will always live in the field of the known, from which thought arises, which is matter.’
Krishnamurti in Saanen, Switzerland, 1974

‘We seem not to realize the central fact that each one of us is responsible for what is going on in the world, the terror, violence, wars.’
Krishnamurti in Ojai, California, 1980

‘Is there one solution, or one observation, one insight, one comprehension that will bring about a total revolution psychologically in each one of us?’
Krishnamurti at Saanen, Switzerland, 1979

‘Organisation does not draw us together, rather we are drawn together as human beings to resolve our human problems.’
From Krishnamurti’s preface to the first Bulletin, 1968