The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti

by J. Krishnamurti

Learning is never accumulative; it is a constant movement.

it is not the result of knowledge.

Wisdom comes when there is the maturity of self-knowing.

Now, learning about oneself, and accumulating knowledge about oneself, are two different things….

but always knowing, acquiring.

Learning is always in the active present; it has no past.

Authority prevents learning—learning that is not the accumulation of knowledge

To be free, you have to examine authority,

You know, to destroy is to create.

no authority of knowledge,

Virtue is something that must be from moment to moment, like humility. Humility cannot be cultivated,

Fear exists only in relationship to an idea,

Instead of being passively watchful, the mind always operates on the problem.

If the present is burdened with the experience of yesterday there can be no renewal.

As each experience arises, live it out as fully and deeply as possible;

We must be capable of living the four seasons in a day; to

You are just a creative human being living anonymously, and in that there is richness and great beauty.

If you have something to say, you create your own style;

When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing;

Only That Which Dies Can Renew Itself