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Habit

Habit is the repetition of a pleasurable act
Habit is the repetition of a pleasurable act brought about by the stimulating memories and images the mind evokes.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Freedom from habit
If you are simply aware of the whole structure of habit without resistance, there is freedom from habit, and in that freedom a new thing takes place.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment – attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings – will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.

Fighting habit becomes a habit
When you fight a habit you give life to that habit; and the fighting becomes another habit.
—KRISHNAMURTI
Krishnamurti in London 1962, Talk 6
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Most of us function in a series of habits. In the turmoil, the anxiety, the tremendous agony of our existence, we seek comfort by turning to what we call God, and we function in that habit. We have habits of food, habits of thought, habits of feeling, and we say, ‘If I don’t function in habit, what will I do? How am I to live?’ – which is really the fear of being uncertain. Most of us don’t know what it is to live in a state of uncertainty without going off the deep end. When we feel intensely uncertain, we become neurotic, which is merely a reaction born of wanting to he certain. Thought has always functioned in habit, therefore it is afraid of being uncertain, insecure. To live in uncertainty is a healthy not a neurotic state, but we don’t know what it means.

Whatever you do is in the pattern of habits
Whatever you do is in the pattern of habits. So to do nothing, to have the feeling that you don’t have to fight it, is the greatest action of intelligence.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book Eight Conversations
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Habit is an escape
Smoking, drinking, or any other habit, is an escape from your own nervousness or disturbed state.
—KRISHNAMURTI
Krishnamurti in Colombo 1950, Talk 2
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