Does the body, the physical organism, have its own intelligence? It has when all the senses are acting together in harmony so that there is no straining, no emotional or sensory demands of desire. When one is hungry, one eats – but usually taste, formed by habit, dictates what one eats. So fragmentation takes place. A healthy body can be brought about only through the harmony of all the senses, which is the intelligence of the body itself. What we are asking is: doesn’t disharmony bring about waste of energy? Can the organism’s own intelligence, which has been suppressed or destroyed by thought, be awakened?

From The Whole Movement of Life Is Learning

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Be wise and definite about your health; don’t let emotion and sentiment interfere with your health or belittle your action. There are too many influences and pressures that constantly shape the mind and heart; be aware of them, cut through them, and don’t be a slave to them. To be a slave is to be mediocre. Be awake, aflame.

From Happy Is the One Who Is Nothing

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Meditation is the innocency of the present, and therefore it is always alone. The mind that is completely alone, untouched by thought, ceases to accumulate. So the emptying of the mind is always in the present. For the mind that is alone, the future, which is of the past, ceases. Meditation is a movement, not a conclusion, not an end to be achieved.

From The Only Revolution

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It is good to be alone. To be far away from the world and yet walk its streets is to be alone. To be alone walking up the path beside the rushing, noisy mountain stream full of spring water and melting snows is to be aware of that solitary tree, alone in its beauty. The loneliness of a man in the street is the pain of life; he is never alone, far away, untouched and vulnerable. To be full of knowledge breeds endless misery. The demand for expression, with its frustrations and pains, is that man who walks the streets; he is never alone. Sorrow is the movement of that loneliness.

From The Beauty of Life – Krishnamurti’s Journal

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Find out if you are dependent. And then find out why you depend and see what the implications of that dependence are: fear, loneliness, lack of comfort. If you don’t depend on people, then you are not frightened, are you? Then you don’t mind standing alone. You are standing alone not out of fear; the moment you are alone, you are much more honest, much more sure, nobody can corrupt you, there is no question of being hurt. So, find out if you are dependent on people. And not only on people – on drink, tobacco, chatter, talking endlessly about nothing.

From Beginnings of Learning

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Fear is this emptiness which is in each one of us, and we try to fill it with innumerable recipes for God, good works, divine knowledge, worldly knowledge, amusement and entertainment, religious or otherwise. But it is always there, this emptiness and fear. In our emptiness, we practise for something which our fear has conceived to be great, and we remain in emptiness. Strip us of all jargon, robes, formulas and holy certainties, and what remains? Dull, aching emptiness and the fear of being nothing. The beauty of life goes by. Can you and I go beyond this seeking, these tortures, these actions of emptiness and fear? If not, we are bound to walk in darkness. In darkness, there is no light of understanding. Light is not at the end of fear and darkness; it is here when you know how to look. To see is the greatest thing.

From Can the Mind Be Quiet?

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