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Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti QUOTES

Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti QUOTES

1 " Don't follow me, I'm lost. "

― U.G. Krishnamurti , Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti

2 " The very motivation, the drive behind our demand to understand the laws of nature is to use them for the purpose of continuing the human species at the expense of every other form of life on this planet. "

― U.G. Krishnamurti , Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti

3 " Sometimes we are so involved with our activity that we lose ourselves in it, and in that sense we are living in the moment. "

― U.G. Krishnamurti , Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti

4 " The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise. "

― U.G. Krishnamurti , Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti

5 " But thought is a very protective mechanism and is interested in its own survival. At the same time thought is opposed fundamentally to the functioning of this living organism. We are made to believe that there is such a thing as mind. But there is no such thing as your mind or my mind. Society or culture, or whatever you want to call it, has created us solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its own continuity and status quo. At the same time, it has also created the idea that there is such a thing as individual. But actually, there is a conflict between the two – the idea of the individual and the impossibility of functioning as an individual separate and distinct from the totality of man’s thoughts and experiences. "

― U.G. Krishnamurti , Thought Is Your Enemy: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti