Jiddu Krishnamurti

To know or experience immortality, there must be no ideation.

One cannot think about immortality.

The mind must be entirely quiet, without movement backward or forward, neither delving nor soaring.

That is, ideation must entirely cease.

And that is extremely difficult.

That is why we cling to words like the soul, immortality, continuity, God,

They all have neurological effects, which are sensations.

And on these sensations, the mind feeds.

Deprived the mind of these things, it feels lost.

So it holds on with great strength to past experiences.

which have now become sensations.

Is it possible for the mind to be so quiet, not partially, but in its totality, as to have direct experience of that which is unthinkable?

of that which cannot be put into words.

What matters is to observe your own mind without judgment, just to look at it, watch it,

to be conscious of the fact that your mind is a slave and nothing more.

Because that very perception releases energy and it is this energy that is going to destroy the slavishness of the mind.

We are only concerned with perceiving what is.

And it is the perception of what is that releases the creative fire.

The urgency behind the right question, the very insistence of it, brings about perception.

The perceiving mind is living, moving, full of energy.