Truth and Actuality Quotes

“When we are young we say, “Well at least I’ll be happy”—sex and all the rest of it. As we grow older we say, “My God, it is such an empty life”, and you fill that emptiness with literature, with knowledge, with beliefs, dogmas, rituals, opinions, judgements, and you think that has tremendous significance. You have filled it with words, nothing else but words. Now when you strip yourself of words you say, “I am empty, void”.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Truth and Actuality

“So can we as human beings, living in this disorderly, disintegrating world, become actually, not in theory or imagination, an oasis in a world that is becoming a desert? This is really a very serious question. And can we human beings educate ourselves totally differently? We can do that only if we understand the nature and the movement of thought as time, which means really understanding oneself as a human being. To look at ourselves not according to some psychologist, but to look at ourselves actually as we are and discover how disorderly a life we lead—a life of uncertainty, a life of pain, living on conclusions, beliefs, memories. And becoming aware of it, that very awareness washes away all this.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Truth and Actuality