Daily Reflections for September 2009 - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The readers are advised to read one thought a day, then deeply reflect on it, live that idea and apply it in daily life.

September 01, 2009
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

September 02, 2009
In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

September 03, 2009
Do not think about yourself, but be aware of the thought, emotion, or action that makes you think of yourself.

September 04, 2009
Why do you want to read others books when there is the book of yourself?

September 05, 2009
If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there is no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for “sport,” for food, or for knowledge. The nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship. You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.

September 06, 2009
Truth is more in the process than in the result.

September 07, 2009
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

September 08, 2009
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

September 09, 2009
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.

September 10, 2009
And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

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