The Courage to Stand Alone Quotes

“You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, The Courage to Stand Alone

“You don't actually know anything about that person or that thing, except what you are projecting on that object or the individual. The knowledge you have about it is the experience. It goes on and on. That's all. What that really is, you have no way of knowing.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality

“Vegetarianism for what? For some spiritual goals? One form of life lives off another. That's a fact, whether you like it or not.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality

“The society is interested only in fitting every individual into its framework and maintaining its continuity.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality

“You cannot measure anything unless you have a point. So, if the center is absent, there is no circumference at all. That is pure and simple basic arithmetic.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality

“Every time a thought is born, you are born. Thought in its very nature is shortlived, and once it is gone, that's the end of it. That is probably what the traditions meant by rebirth -- death and birth and death and birth. It is not that this particular entity, which is non-existing even while you are living, takes a series of births. The ending of births and deaths is the state that they are talking about.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality

“It is your thinking that makes you feel that you are alive, that you are conscious. That is possible only when the knowledge you have about things is in operation. You have no way of knowing or finding out whether you are alive or dead. In that sense, there is no death at all, because you are not alive. You become conscious of things only when the knowledge is in operation. When the knowledge is absent, whether the person is dead or alive is of no importance to this movement of thought which comes to an end before what we call "death" takes place.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality

“You are not looking at anything; you are not in contact with anything living, as long as you use your thoughts to understand and experience anything.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality

“What is necessary is not to find out the answer to the question, but to understand that the question which you are asking, posing to yourself, and putting to somebody else, is born out of the answer you already have, which is the knowledge. So, the question and answer format, if we indulge in it for long, becomes a meaningless ritual. ... If you are really interested in finding reality, what has to dawn on you is that your very questioning mechanism is born out of the answers that you already have. Otherwise there can't be any question.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality