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"...the act of seeing is the only truth."
The Awakening of Intelligence, p.188 |
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"Seeing without thought, without the word, without the response of memory is wholly
different from seeing with thought and feeling...Seeing without thought is
total seeing. Seeing a cloud over a mountain, without thought and its responses, is the
miracle of the new; it’s not 'beautiful,' it’s explosive in its immensity; it is something that has
never been and never will be."
Krishnamurti’s Notebook, p.55 |
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"How few see the mountains or a cloud. They look, make some remarks and pass on.
Words, gestures, emotions prevent seeing. A tree, a flower, is given a name,
out into a category and that's that...to see there must be humility whose essence
is innocency.
There's that mountain with the evening sun on it; to see it for the first time, to see it, as though it had never been seen before, to see it with innocency, to see it with eyes that have been bathed in emptiness, that have not been hurt with knowledge - to see then is an extraordinary experience. The word experience is ugly, with it goes emotion, knowledge, recognition and continuity; it is none of these things. It is something totally new." Krishnamurti's Notebook, p.80 |
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"...to see, in the sense I am using that word, requires an enormous energy;
and that energy is dissipated when you are battling with words, when you are
resisting, condemning, when you are full of opinions which are preventing you
from looking, seeing—your energy is all gone in that."
The Book of Life, March 24 |
